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Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols asks governor for life in prison instead
Nichols’s attorneys cite his remorse and rehabilitation as reasons to commute his sentence amid concerns about Tennessee’s lethal injection protocol, with six executions since 2019.
- Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols asks Republican Gov. Bill Lee for clemency and conversion of his death sentence to life imprisonment with just a month until his scheduled execution date.
- Nichols confessed to the 1988 rape and murder of Karen Pulley, a 21-year-old student, and would be the first person executed in Tennessee for a crime he pleaded guilty to since the death penalty was re-enacted in 1978.
- The clemency petition argues that Nichols turned his life around in prison, becoming a model inmate who helps make the prison safer and mentors at-risk youth, inspired by the victim's mother who met him and gave him a Bible.
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Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols asks governor for life in prison instead
Attorneys for Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols are asking the governor to convert his sentence to life imprisonment with just a month until his scheduled Dec. 11 execution date.
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