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.
Nichols was sentenced to death for the brutal beating and rape of 20-year-old Karen Pulley in Chattanooga.

The Tennessean

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