Catch the other two and get three ropes.
Why waste good ropes?
We used to know how to treat miscreants in this country of our...then judges started misreading "and" as "or", as in '...cruel AND unusal punishment...'
Olive was like the fictional Liberty Valence and had killed at least nine men. Two, James Crow and Turk Turner were caught skinning an Olive steer. They were tied up in the wet steer hide and left out in the hot Texas sun to be crushed to death as the hide shrank.