Savage Attacks is a Aggressive Combat Expressions wherein the character is unconsciously prone to always attempting the most lethal killing blows, no holds barred. A desire to do non-lethal damage in any activity would require a conscious change to their ingrained behavior (likely necessitating a Sanity check).
For each measure of this feature, the character adds an additional damage dice (min. d8) when an attack Action gets an Extraordinary Result (“critical”).