Twelve hours before leaving office, the governor of New Mexico, Bill Richardson, decided that no pardon for Billy the Kid. Richardson had little to lose, has already fulfilled his eight-year rule and the pardon, which had asked the Albuquerque lawyer Randi McGinn, was symbolic: a request that the State would live up to a promise broken by another governor 129 years ago."I would not rewrite history," said Richardson in New Mexico to inform its decision. Indeed, history holds that William Bonney, alias Billy the Kid was an outlaw who killed nine and 21 people in an escalation of violence sparked by the murder of his friend and adoptive father, rancher John Tunstall.
One murder began in 1778, an escalation of revenge and a war that lasted two years, started by Billy the Kid to kill in an ambush on the main street of the town of Lincoln, Sheriff William Brady, whom he considered responsible for death of his friend and protector. El Niño fled to Texas but received a conciliatory offer by the New Mexico governor, Lew Wallace's death would forgive him if Brady was working with authorities in another trial.
El Niño accepted and returned to New Mexico, only to find that the governor allowed his arrest, trial and death sentence for the murder of Sheriff Brady corrupt. He escaped from prison, killing more officers, but weeks later he was killed by his nemesis, the dreaded sheriff Pat Garrett.
Grandchildren and great grandchildren of the latter advised the Governor not to grant the pardon, which Richardson considered crucial for its final decision.
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