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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/public-backing-billy-the-kid-pardon.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Governor Bill Richardson's office set up a website and email address to take comments on a possible posthumous pardon for Billy the Kid (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-public-backing-billy-the-kid-pardon.jpg" alt="Governor Bill Richardson's office set up a website and email address to take comments on a possible posthumous pardon for Billy the Kid (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>More people say they favour a pardon for Billy the Kid than oppose the idea after Governor Bill Richardson&#8217;s office set up a website and email address to take comments on a possible posthumous pardon for one of New Mexico&#8217;s most famous Old West outlaws.</p>
<p>Mr Richardson&#8217;s office received 809 emails and letters in the survey that ended on Sunday. Some 430 argued for a pardon and 379 opposed it.</p>
<p>The website was created in mid-December after Albuquerque lawyer Randi McGinn petitioned for a pardon, contending New Mexico Territorial Governor Lew Wallace promised one in return for the Kid&#8217;s testimony in a murder case against three men.</p>
<p>Mr Richardson&#8217;s term ends on Friday, leaving him only a few days to decide whether to pardon the Kid over the 1878 killing of Lincoln County Sheriff William Brady.</p>
<p>&#8220;I might not pardon him. But then I might,&#8221; Mr Richardson said.</p>
<p>His successor, incoming Governor Susana Martinez, has already said she will not be wasting her time on a pardon. The Republican said that state issues, such as a balanced budget and a controversial move of the state&#8217;s DNA laboratory, were more pressing.</p>
<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s an awful lot of work to be taken care of for us to be wasting so much time on such a consideration. It&#8217;s just a waste,&#8221; she said.</p>
<p>Billy the Kid, also known as William Bonney or Henry McCarty, was shot to death by Sheriff Pat Garrett in July 1881, a few months after escaping from the Lincoln County jail where he was awaiting hanging for Brady&#8217;s death. He killed two deputies while escaping, but Ms McGinn&#8217;s pardon request does not cover those deaths.</p>
<p>Ms McGinn, knowing Mr Richardson&#8217;s interest in the Kid, offered to look into the issue this summer. She petitioned for a pardon on December 14 after reviewing historical documents and other material.</p>
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