New Meixco Governor Bill Richardson is unlikely to pardon the notorious and infamous outlaw, Bill the Kid.
Mr. Richardson, who still has five months left in office, is facing questions and criticisms about his interest in Billy the Kid.
“The governor has said since 2003 that he would consider a pardon,” Alarie Ray-Garcia, a spokesman for Richardson, said Wednesday. “He has had many conversations with different people, but right now we have nothing planned.”
Speculation of a pardon resurfaced this month after columns in the Los Angeles Times and The Albuquerque Journal said the governor was considering it.
Various historians say there is no need for Mr. Richardson to grant a pardon to the West’s most notorious outlaw.
“There is no point in restoring the civil rights of a dead man,” said historian Drew Gomber of Lincoln County. “It’s a publicity stunt by the governor.”
Check out the interview with frontier lawman Pat Garrett’s grandkids who say “no, no, no” http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/07/30/ap/strange/main6727765.shtml