It may be atypical, but I would hardly count it as bizarre.
Won’t he be judged guilty/innocent by twelve unlicensed, untrained persons? (Heck, they won’t even let you on a jury if you have any kind of legal training!) Personally, I’d be much more worried about regular old Joe Schmoe deciding whether I get life in prison than being the one to apprehend me and bring me in.
Most countries have a bounty system whether or not they allow professional bounty hunters. The only difference is that others rely strictly on happenstance (random citizen calling into a tipline) whereas ours allows intelligent detective work and (maybe) citizen’s arrest to go alongside.
I view it as a very positive move in favoring a responsible citizenship over a busybody government. In fact, I would say that citizens should always be the first recourse, and government the second.
The thing I find weird about it is that in most states a bounty hunter gets a very high percentage of police powers with none of the training. Also because of their status as regular citizens they’re immune from a lot of the rules the police need to follow (the biggest one being warrants). In most states it’s harder to be a notary than a bounty hunter, and that’s weird.