A posthumous pardon for Billy the Kid

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40833392/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets

What does everybody think?



In the comments section, a lot of people are calling Billy the Kid a cold blooded murderer, no better than Jack the Ripper, or Ted Bundy, or Jeffrey Dahmer, that he had no conscience, these people are either ALL relatives of that gas bag Pat Garrett or they just have never bothered to look up the real history which shows he didn't gun down 21 people 1 for each year of his life, he didn't just blow people away for the hell of it, he killed 2 people in his life and the first one was a case of self defense. I say pardon him, why the hell not?

Edit: My error, 4 people, 2 of which were self defense, still quite a leap away from Pat Garrett's fabricated 21 in cold blood, one for every year of his life.

My complaint is with the relatives of Pat Garrett, they're all defensive about this because they don't want his legacy tarnished or whatever...well let's see, he was a sheriff, he was told from the start that he shot the wrong man and he never made any attempt to prove people wrong on that, he wrote a book LYING about how many people Billy killed, increasing it by 17 non-existent bodies to make it sound like he did the world a favor by killing a 21 year old boy, oh yeah we wouldn't want people to think he wasn't the great savior of the wild west, would we?

A posthumous pardon was the systems way of trying to be funny.

I just read that this wasn't going to happen anyway

http://www.aolnews.com/2010/12/31/bill-richardson-no-pardon-for-billy-the-kid/?icid=main%7Chtmlws-main-n%7Cdl1%7Csec3_lnk2%7C192856