There have been two programmes on English TV, in the last two nights on the business of Billy the Kid being granted a posthumous pardon.

I bet some of the three thousand folk on death row in America are a bit jealous of all the informed representation and debate going on about Billy's case.

I've been reading about William H Bonney since I was a kid. What   do people in An merica think - should he get a pardon? One of the first legends they told me about was the one about him having killed a man for every year of life - (not counting Injuns and Mexicans, as I remember).

Sounds like a bit of a bad lot to me.