Dec. 11 (UPI) — Tennessee executed Harold Wayne Nichols on Thursday morning for the rape and murder of a 20-year-old college student in 1988.
Nichols, 64, was put to death by lethal injection at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville. His execution was originally scheduled to take place in July 2020, but Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee delayed it amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
He admitted to police that he killed Karen Pulley while she was in bed in her family’s Brainerd home. He also confessed to multiple other rapes.
Pulley’s sister, Lisette Monroe, told WTVC-TV in Chattanooga, Tenn., that the execution wouldn’t bring closure to her family. Still, she said she “wants and needs to see just happen.”…