For the second time it is too late for William Bonney, AKA Billy the Kid, to receive a pardon. The lore that surrounds the Arizona bad guy is that he killed twenty-one men, one for each of his years of life. The State of Arizona puts it an nine-still definitely in the "doesn't get along well with his playmates" category. At the end of 2010 Governor Bill Richardson, was considering a request to pardon Bonney for one of his murders. The petition mentioned a deal that was supposedly struck between the outlaw and the Territorial Governor, exchanging testimony in another trial for an annulment "of pending charges against him, including an indictment for murder in the 1878 shooting death of Sheriff William Brady." (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40708782/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/)
Obviously, the descendants of some involved with the outlaw-some fatally involved-were against any cleaning of the record for Bonney, who judging from his picture was also guilty of overeating and not ironing his clothing. (Though the records give another story, that he was of slight build and a nice dresser.)
At any rate it's too late now, for the second time. Governor Richardson left office at the end of 2010, and with his departure the possibility of a pardon for Billy the Kid ended. The more important deadline was July 14, 1881, when the outlaw was shot by Sheriff Pat Garrett. Prior to that date a pardon was available to the Kid. Others involved in the taking of human life, Moses, David, Paul had availed themselves of that pardon. In rather plain language the scripture spells out the deadline. ". . . it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment (Hebrews 9:27). Put in a positive way, "Behold, now is "the acceptable time," behold, now is "the day of salvation." (2 Corinthians 6:2).
Don't let the deadline pass.
It's STTA.
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