A pardon for Billy the Kid?

• Position: Wild West - Brief article

Billy the Kid is long dead and buffed, and so is the Sheriff who shot him in 1881. Now, almost 130 years later, Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico is thinking about granting the outlaw cattle rustler and murderer a pardon. The Kid (whose real name was either Henry McCarty or William H. Bonney) killed four law enforcement officers and many others. But there's evidence that the Governor at the time told the Kid he would grant him a pardon in return for testifying about a killing he had witnessed. The Kid testified, but he never got his pardon...