Green’s Dictionary of Slang

to hang someone.

1633		T. Adams A commentary [...] vpon the diuine second epistle 1156: One haire doth not hang a man, many haires twisted together will. Even lusts are able to serve him like Absalom, and halter him at the next bough.
a.1661		‘The Four-legg’d Quaker’ Rump Poems and Songs (1662) I 359: Thou Rogue, I’ll have thee haltered twice.
1681		H. Harrison The weary traveller his eternal rest 195: [H]alter him into a shamefull death, and swing him into another World.
1682		E. Hickeringill The history of Whiggism 76: Nay, if Judges will Hang men for acting contrary to Law [...] I would Halter them my self [...] if such Wretches act contrary to Law.
1741		Ordinary of Newgate Account of Malefactors executed at Tyburn 18th Mar. 1740 Pt II 12: When the Officer came to halter her in the Press Yard, she was very much shocked.
1796		Watty and Meg 3: O! I wish I had been halter’d / When I marry’d Maggy Howe!
1816		Morn. Post 27 Dec. 3/3: To give industrious Hangmen bread; / — O may they be h’altered soon.
1833		Albany Microscope (NY) 28 Dec. n.p.: We have only time to ‘halter’ a few delinquents this week [...] We have a host now under sentence, but have allowed them a little time.