Constantine explicitly excluded the accidental killing of enslaved people during beatings or punishments. That’s fine, because the only real person hurt by that was the person who lost some valuable property. However, the enslaver is made guilty of murder if they deliberately kill an enslaved person in any of the following gruesome ways: with a club or stone, with any weapon, by hanging, by being thrown from a high place, with poison, with ‘the cutting of the sides with the claws of a wild beast’ (grimly specific even for a Roman), by burning, or by torturing a person to death, which
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