billy the kid

Gov. Bill Richardson said Thursday he is considering granting a posthumous pardon to the notorious Wild West gunslinger Billy the Kid. The outlaw is well known for the showdown between he and frontier lawman Pat Garrett almost 130 years ago. Kid escaped from jail and was then tracked down by Garrett, who shot him down on July 14, 1881.
"If Billy the Kid was living amongst us now, would you issue a pardon for someone who made his living as a thief and, more egregiously, who killed four law enforcement officers and numerous others?" the Garrett family wrote.

According to Wikipedia:

Henry McCarty, better known as Billy the Kid, but also known by the aliases Henry Antrim and William H. Bonney (reportedly November 23, 1859 – July 14, 1881), was a 19th century American frontier outlaw and gunman who participated in the Lincoln County War. According to legend, he killed 21 men, but he is generally accepted to have killed four. Pat Garrett shot Billy the Kid down on July 14, 1881. Garrett tracked him after the outlaw escaped from the Lincoln County jail in a famous gunbattle that left two deputies dead.