The point of get-outs is they allow you to do much WORSE things (and they shouldn't be apparent until AFTER the event). ("The God has been merciful. This time the one you slew was only a thrall.")
The important thing to Humakt is that a would-be devotee has to be prepared to bring Death where it is needed - and NOT to abuse his power by killing willy-nilly.
If you want to make your Humakti really grim, that's up to you - but I wouldn't want to rule out a fight to the death between player characters as part of a test OR to actually kill a player character just for a Devotion test (at least not without a way out - for Humakti it is possible that they have to "die" something like the way Odin sacrificed himself to achieve Devotion.)
-- -- "The T'ang emperors were strong believers in the pills of immortality. More emperors died of poisoning from ingesting minerals in the T'ang than in any other dynasty" - Eva Wong _The Shambhala Guide to Taoism_ Paul K.
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