US EditionDeath Row Inmate Has Two Weeks to Choose How He Is Executed in Gruesome Decision
Harold Wayne Nichols will be executed by lethal injection after declining to choose between electrocution and lethal injection under Tennessee law allowing inmates convicted before 1999 to choose.
- On Monday, Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection for his Dec. 11 execution, leaving two weeks to change his mind, Tennessee Department of Correction spokesperson Dorinda Carter said.
- Under Tennessee law, inmates convicted before January 1999 may choose electrocution; Harold Wayne Nichols was sentenced in 1990 for raping and murdering Karen Pulley, 21-year-old student.
- At the time Nichols chose electrocution earlier, Tennessee's lethal-injection protocol used three drugs, and an independent review found execution drugs since 2018 lacked proper testing, with attorneys citing problems.
- The Correction Department adopted a single-drug pentobarbital protocol last December, attorneys for several death-row inmates sued with trial set for April, and executions were paused in 2022 by Gov. Bill Lee.
- Though permitted, electrocution has been used only five times in the past decade, all in Tennessee, and Nichols previously chose it for his 2020 execution reprieved due to COVID-19.
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Tennessee Death Row Inmate Declines to Choose Execution Method for December Date – Knowhere News
Nashville, TN — Harold Wayne Nichols, a Tennessee death row inmate, has declined to select between the electric chair and lethal injection for his scheduled December 11 execution, meaning the state will proceed with lethal injection by default, according to correction officials. Nichols, now in his 60s, was sentenced to death in 1990 after being convicted of raping and murdering 21-year-old Karen Pulley, a Chattanooga State University student, t…
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Tennessee death row inmate declines to chose between the electric chair and lethal injection
Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols has declined to chose between the electric chair and lethal injection for his Dec. 11 execution, meaning the state will default to lethal injection.
Death row inmate declines to chose between the electric chair and lethal injection
Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols has declined to chose between the electric chair and lethal injection for his Dec. 11 execution, meaning the state will default to lethal injection
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