 If a father discovered that his married daughter was committing adultery in either his own house or the house of his son-in-law, he was entitled to kill both the woman and her lover; if he killed only one of the adulterers, he could be charged with murder.While advertising the father's power, the extremity of the sentence seems to have led to its judicious implementation, since cases in which this sentence was carried out are infrequently recorded — most notoriously, by Augustus himself against his own daughter.A wronged husband was entitled to kill his wife's lover if the man was either a slave or "infamis", a person who, though perhaps technically free, was excluded from the normal legal protections extended to Roman citizens.