Tennessee to execute man for 1998 rape and murder of college student
Harold Wayne Nichols, who will be killed by lethal injection, confessed to killing Karen Pulley and raping other womenTennessee is preparing to execute Harold Wayne Nichols by lethal injection on Thursday for the 1988 rape and murder of Karen Pulley, a 20-year-old student at Chattanooga State...
<p>Harold Wayne Nichols, who will be killed by lethal injection, confessed to killing Karen Pulley and raping other women</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/tennessee">Tennessee</a> is preparing to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/capital-punishment">execute</a> Harold Wayne Nichols by lethal injection on Thursday for the 1988 rape and murder of Karen Pulley, a 20-year-old student at Chattanooga State University.</p><p>Nichols confessed to killing Pulley as well as raping several other women in the Chattanooga area. Although he expressed remorse at trial, he admitted that he would have continued his violent behavior had he not been arrested. He was sentenced to death in 1990.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/11/tennessee-harold-wayne-nichols-execution">Continue reading...</a>
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