We need to go back to the old “Wanted: Dead or Alive” posters.
That way, he could have wasted em, still collect the reward, done society a HUGE favor, and saved a whole bunch of tax dollars. All with just a couple of cheap bullets.
In Texas, governor’s warrants are *still* ‘Wanted: Dead Or Alive” as I recall. One was issues as recently as 2000-2001 in the case of the Texas Seven: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Seven
He may have saved his own as well!
Financially encourage good old fashioned bounty hunters with a James Bond license to kill.