KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Lawyers for a Tennessee inmate set to be executed next month say the Tennessee Department of Correction is withholding basic public information about its lethal injection process in violation of state law.
On Wednesday, the legal team representing Harold Wayne Nichols will make its case before Knox County Chancellor John Weaver. The hearing is set to start 1:30 p.m.
Nichols is set to be put to death Dec. 11 for the 1988 rape and murder of a 21-year-old Chattanooga woman. He declined earlier this month to choose between lethal injection and the electric chair, so he’ll face lethal injection by default in the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution’s death chamber…