Roman law created a person who could be killed without penalty or ritual meaning

Evidence

Now I think that the reason why death had become something to be hidden away is not that anxiety has somehow been displaced or that repressive mechanisms have been modified. What once (and until the end of the eighteenth century) made death so spectacular and ritualized it so much was the fact that it was a manifestation of a transition from one power to another. Death was the moment when we made the transition from one power—that of the sovereign of this world—to another—that of the sovereign of the next world. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 262 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Roman law defined a person killable with impunity yet unusable for sacrifice.; Roman sacredness could make a person killable with impunity, not just inviolable — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular:…, 133; In Roman law sacredness could mark objects as inviolable and persons as killable (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Roman law defined a person killable with impunity yet unusable for sacrifice. #corroborates (0.97)
• Ritualized death faded because death escaped sovereign power’s reach #complicates (0.76) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 262