Thursday morning, Harold Wayne Nichols was the third man to be executed in Tennessee in 2025. Nichols pleaded guilty to raping and killing a 20-year-old woman named Karen Pulley in 1988.

Bill Lee will not be intervening in the execution of Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols, he said Tuesday. Nichols, convicted of the 1988 rape and murder of a Chattanooga State University student,

By day, Harold Wayne Nichols was a loving husband who was adored by his wife. By night, he was a serial predator who attacked women at their most vulnerable.

Harold “Wayne” Nichols is set to be executed Thursday morning for the rape and murder of Karen Pulley in 1988.

A man sentenced to die for his conviction in a 1988 murder has selected his final meal, according to the Tennessee Department of Correction.