John, a couple on the West Coast, and one on the East Coast are the only ones Anita is aware of at the time of Crimson Death. Anita, Larry Kirkland, Manny Rodriguez before his retirement, Denis-Luc St.

Most vampire executioners, bounty hunters, preternatural marshals, or others involved in hunting down the lawbreaking preternatural citizens, don't have psychic abilities. Later, when they start training new marshals in classroom, their numbers go up further, but the general competence goes down. It's unclear if they simply got themselves licensed as vampire executioners as well, or if the requirements were changed during the lawmaking process to include anyone with credible experience in hunting supernatural creatures of any sort. Bounty hunters aren't mentioned, but several people whom Anita has that far referred to as licensed bounty hunters like Bernardo Spotted-Horse end up as federal marshals anyway, as does Otto Jefferies, whose credentials were given as 'a retired government worker' when Anita first met him. Īs of Cerulean Sins all executioners who pass the requirements have received federal status. In Blue Moon the number of active, licensed executioners is ten. She can name eight of them, herself included, two of whom are retired. In Bloody Bones Anita states that there are less than a dozen licensed vampire executioners in the United States. Vampire executioners are initially very rare. For the most part shapeshifters and other such creatures are handled by bounty hunters, who are not initially included in the plans for getting a federal status. When licensing is introduced just prior to Bloody Bones there are plans for giving the vampire executioners a federal status, but also of expanding their mandate to other supernatural critters, which Anita sees as a potential problem.

Most vampire executioners only kill vampires, but Anita Blake and a few others also investigate and battle other supernatural beings and even the humans who serve them. He is still serving his sentence at the time of The Harlequin, five years later. The message still didn't really go through until one of the vampire executioners went to jail for murder. The first people to take the job were those who used to slay vampires back when they could all be killed on sight, and some of those new executioners were so trigger-happy that the government had to strip the vampire executioner credentials from some of them to hammer in the point that waiting for a warrant is really required.

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