Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols was executed by lethal injection Dec. 11 at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville. Nichols, 64, was pronounced dead at 10:39 a.m. He was on death row for 35 years.

Harold Wayne Nichols, 64, was sentenced to death after being convicted for the 1988 rape and murder of Karen Pulley in Chattanooga.

Karen Pulley, who was bludgeoned, raped, and left for dead. It's the 46th execution in the U.S. this year −a number not seen since 2010 − and the third in Tennessee. "To the people I've harmed,