On Thursday morning (12/11/2025), the Tennessee Department of Correction carried out the death sentence of 64-year-old Harold Wayne Nichols by lethal injection at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution. Nichols received the death penalty in 1990 after pleading guilty to the brutal 1988 rape and murder of 20-year-old Karen Pulley in Hamilton County.
The following is from TDOC press release. Included is a photo of Karen Pulley and the statement from her family.
