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Billy the Kid Pardon? New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson Urged to Say No

"It's 21 men that I've put bullets through, and Sheriff Pat Garrett's gonna make 22." -- Billy the Kid, traditional. Kids don't play cowboy much anymore, but the legend of Billy the Kid lives on. Descendants of Sheriff Pat Garrett, the man who gunned him down in 1881, met with New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson on Wednesday to urge him not go grant a posthumous pardon to the Kid, who went by the name William Bonney but was also known as Kid Antrim (and was born Henry McCarty). Billy the Kid, chronicled in folk songs and film as a romantic Wild West figure who was goodhearted if misguided, has ...

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