==Buried Alive== 

 The article is clearly a grisly read.  However, I wish to confirm what the article says as true:  
 In the Criminal History section, the article states:  
 "After she stated she would go to the police, Lockett decided to bury her alive.[10] Lockett ordered an accomplice to bury her while she was still breathing. She died from two wounds from a shotgun fired by Lockett." 

 1) Are we saying that Lockett SHOT Neiman and then ordered her to be buried alive?   

 2) Has the coroner to Neiman said that she died from the gunshot wounds ONLY?  
 
 3) Did Neiman suffocate WHILST she was dying from the gunshot wounds?  

 4) The upshot of this is that was Neiman dying (and suffering) from being buried alive whilst (presumably) bleeding to death from gunshot wounds?   

 5) How long was Neiman conscious for whilst/after being buried?   

 It just seems a little difficult, from an objective point of view, to say that someone can be being killed by multiple causes, to then lay the cause of death to one cause (again this must be in coroner's report).   

 I should say sorry to ask the cleary difficult questions, but such a crime deserves some specificity so that people can be sure of what precisely happened.   

 I might add that even if Lockett was an evil person (and looking at his life experience, it is not clear that he 'chose' evil) we as a civilised society have no place in making him suffer and die in a painful way.  If you have to kill him for a rational reason (as a deterrent or to save resources) that's one thing, but by killing him this way, the State has shown that it is no different from the other criminals in its vindictiveness - and that's a bad place to be.  Of course, the mechanisations that surround Lockett's death do reflect negatively upon the American State (and those who engineered the inhumane nature of Lockett's death).