Outgoing New Mexico Bill Richardson wants to grant a pardon to convicted Billy the Kid, the bandit killing a sheriff in 1878. Possible pardon has prompted a debate on this chapter in the history of the border, with supporters saying state authorities did not comply with an agreement with Billy the Kid - also known as William H. Bonney - and opponents argue that forgiveness would sully the memory of to officers who followed him.
An unofficial survey, the Office of the Governor created the public support for clemency, according to the Associated Press, with 430 respondents and 379 against.
The pardon is a gesture of good will with the traditional leaders, but few relate to prisoners who died more than a century. Richardson, a western history buff, began considering a pardon for Bonney after receiving a request from the Albuquerque lawyer Randi McGinn this month, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Billy the Kid was the murder of a Lincoln County Sheriff William Brady in 1878 sentenced, but the governor of New Mexico territorial, Lew Wallace, was offered a pardon, separated when he testified in a murder case. The boy was accepted but never forgiven. He escaped from prison in 1881 and killed two deputies before he persecuted and killed 14th July 1881.
McGinn told the Times that his request was "just a promise that I meet the governor."
Great-grandson of Wallace, but in contrast to grace. William N. Wallace said that the pardon portray the former governor as "a disgraceful liar."
Richardson has to decide by Friday. His successor, Susana Martinez said he has better things to do with their time want to discuss the law was from the border.
An unofficial survey, the Office of the Governor created the public support for clemency, according to the Associated Press, with 430 respondents and 379 against.
The pardon is a gesture of good will with the traditional leaders, but few relate to prisoners who died more than a century. Richardson, a western history buff, began considering a pardon for Bonney after receiving a request from the Albuquerque lawyer Randi McGinn this month, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Billy the Kid was the murder of a Lincoln County Sheriff William Brady in 1878 sentenced, but the governor of New Mexico territorial, Lew Wallace, was offered a pardon, separated when he testified in a murder case. The boy was accepted but never forgiven. He escaped from prison in 1881 and killed two deputies before he persecuted and killed 14th July 1881.
McGinn told the Times that his request was "just a promise that I meet the governor."
Great-grandson of Wallace, but in contrast to grace. William N. Wallace said that the pardon portray the former governor as "a disgraceful liar."
Richardson has to decide by Friday. His successor, Susana Martinez said he has better things to do with their time want to discuss the law was from the border.
