Assuming you mean Lando Calrissian, I don’t know what you’re talking about. He was the administrator of a tibanna gas mining facility, a perfectly respectable and above-board businessman.
I would watch that!
Wait, doesn’t the Mandalorian have respectable facial hair, too?
Sure does. And Marshal Cobb Vanth (Seth Bullock in space!) is rocking a beard/mustache combo so distinguished it should honestly stop crime in a 12 parsec radius.
Which seems counter-intuitive from the bail bondsman perspective. Having the fugitive’s head in a bag doesn’t get them their money back. At best it’s a deterrent to to the next being considering departing the system.
I’m pretty sure that’s how it works in real life. If a fugitive dies on the run, all charges are dismissed (abated by death) and the bond is released to the lender.
What about clones?
The Rebellion never truly recovered after losing this guy.
Regarding historical (say, “old west”) bounty hunting, how prevalent was the tropish “wanted dead or alive” contract? It’s pretty obviously de rigueur in Star Wars. If, for instance, Vader had to insist repeatedly on his targets being brought in alive.
The scoundrel!
I bet he drinks malt liquor too!
We’ve seen some “dead or alive” contracts, some “alive only” or “dead only”, and some with different bounties for different conditions.
He doesn’t always ask “I can bring you in warm, or I can bring you in cold”.
Well, one of the common themes in Star Wars is the issue of how hard it is to actually run a government on a Galactic scale. Part of what made it possible for Palpatine to take over in the first place is that the Republic was pretty shitty at doing government-type things. They had a massive bureaucracy that couldn’t even keep up with planet-to-planet government issues like trade policy and peacekeeping. Adding in trying to have an influence over day-to-day interactions between individual people, like enforcing murder and assault statutes, would have been orders of magnitude more difficult.
So, by and large, the Galactic-level government pretty much ignores everything that happens on any given planet. “Run your little world well enough that we never need to notice you” is pretty much all the law they impose. So local powers can pretty much do whatever they want, so long as they don’t screw up badly enough to make the Galactic government notice them.