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Billy the Kid Remains an Outlaw: New Mexico Governor Won't Pardon Him
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyAs Bob Dylan sang, "Billy, they don't like you to be so free." New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson said Friday he will not pardon the legendary Wild West outlaw William Bonney -- better known as Billy the Kid -- because the historical record about another governor's promise to do so is ambiguous. "It was a very close call," Richardson told ABC's "Good Morning America." "I've been working on this for eight years." Descendants of Sheriff Pat Garrett, the lawman who gunned down Billy the Kid in Lincoln County, New Mexico, in 1881, had lobbied against the pardon and Richardson, who was clearly ...
Billy the Kid May Get Pardon From Bill the Governor
By Hugh Collins - AOL News(Dec. 17) -- Billy the Kid, notorious gunslinger and icon of the Wild West, may receive a pardon from New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson. Richardson this week received a formal petition to pardon Billy the Kid, born Henry McCarty, who is believed to have struck a deal with Territorial Gov. Lew Wallace, Reuters reported. Under the terms of the agreement, Wallace would drop all pending charges against McCarty, including those related to the killing of Sheriff William Brady in 1878. In return, McCarty would testify in a murder trial. McCarty testified but never received a pardon. He was ...
Billy the Kid Pardon? New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson Urged to Say No
By Tom Diemer - Politics Daily"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 ...
Pardon Billy the Kid? Not So Fast, Say Sheriff's Kin
By John O. Membrino - AOL News(July 30) -- There's talk around New Mexico that the governor is thinking of pardoning Billy the Kid, and descendants of Pat Garrett don't much cotton to the idea. Sheriff Garrett tracked down and shot dead Billy the Kid, aka William Bonney and several other aliases, in 1881 after the notorious gunslinger had killed two deputies while busting out of jail in Lincoln County. A couple of years earlier, the territorial governor, Lew Wallace, reportedly offered the Kid a pardon in connection with a murder charge he faced in return for his testimony against those involved in a bloody range war. But ...
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