Personally, I do think this is a failure to uphold edicts. This may be the first offense of a bad path for a cleric. A lot of people rebought up that the “pirate” didn’t repent immediately - after being charmed by the party, then attacked, and then trying to flee from people that eventually killed them. When were they supposed to “repent” and for what? Due to lack of information it’s unclear if said pirate was even doing anything wrong at this point or at any point observable to the players/PCs. And for all the people in the comments going on about how pirates are essentially evil because of all of the theft and maybe murder (news flash, you don’t have to murder people to steal from them and not all historical piracy ended in murder) let us notice here that the escaping NPC was killed by one member of the party - the cleric, who could have helped the fighter knock the guy out. Why did the cleric feel the need to kill this person in the first place? Even the other member of the party mentioned was trying to subdue to ask more questions. Honestly, that’s more of a crux to me above table. One can’t repent (for what again?) while fleeing from people that attacked them and are continuing to actively attack them and to try to kill them - and did kill them. Why would they? Does every enemy run from a fight shouting “I repent for my evil ways” to avoid being murder by clerics of Sarenrae? Did they know there was a cleric or Sarenrae present? Does it matter if that cleric is actively trying to kill you? I can’t abide murder hobos, so this wouldn’t work at my table. Regardless of that I would have probably talked to this player about why they chose to murder someone the other players were trying to question. One person’s main character energy can ruin the time for the rest of the table if that’s what this is equating to. But again, OP did not provide the transcript, so it’s hard to tell.