Hang him

Hi, Everyone!!

In the passage below, written by Gary Renard, titled "Your immortal reality"...

"Hang him" really means "to kill him by hanging"?

A rich rancher had that power at that time in Texas?
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In the 1880s there was a rich rancher who lived in Texas. He
was not a particularly spiritual dude, but he was very good at
manifesting abundance, making some of his neighbors suspect
that the two things weren’t necessarily connected. He did claim
to be a Christian, but his actions in the world made this claim a
doubtful one.

One day, a poor farmer who had no food sneaked on to the
rich rancher’s land and stole one of his chickens so that his family
could eat. He was caught by one of the ranch hands and brought
to the rancher. There were a lot of things the rancher could have
said, but all he said was, “Hang ‘im! It’ll teach ‘im a lesson.”
A couple of years later, a man from Mexico was trespassing on
the rancher’s land. He was very poor, and hoping to find a new life.
What he found was the rancher’s men, who took him to their boss.
After looking the trespasser over, all the rancher said was, “Hang
’im! It’ll teach ’im a lesson.”

There were many episodes like this in the rich rancher’s life, in
which he never stopped to put himself in other people’s shoes but
simply reacted in anger and judged and condemned them, usually
ending with the phrase, “Hang ’im! It’ll teach ’im a lesson.”

Then one night the rancher’s body died, and he saw himself
going up toward the pearly gates of Heaven. The rancher was hoping
that no one would recognize him and maybe he could just walk
in. But right before he got to the gate, St. Peter stepped in front of
him and said, “Wait a minute. Jesus wants to talk to you.”

Now the rancher was very worried. He remembered some of the
things he had done in his life, and here he was, about to be judged
by Jesus himself! Suddenly, the rancher was shaking in his boots.
Jesus appeared, walked slowly up to the rancher, looked him right
in the eyes, and then said to St. Peter, “Forgive ‘im. It’ll teach ‘im
a lesson.”