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Tennessee inmate apologizes before death by lethal injection for 1988 rape and murder of student

(11 Dec 2025) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS Nashville, Tennessee - 11 December 2025 1. Wide of photos of Karen Pulley outside Riverbend Maximum Security Institution 2. SOUNDBITE (English) Frank Strada, commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Correction: "And today, by the order of the Supreme Court, the Department of Correction carried out the death sentence of Harold Wayne Nichols by means of lethal injection here at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution." 3. Wide low of flowers in front of an image of Karen Pulley 4. SOUNDBITE (English) Frank Strada, commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Correction: "And his last words were, and I quote, 'To the people I've harmed, I'm sorry. To my family, know that I love you. I know where I'm going to. I'm ready to go home.' And this concludes my statement." 5. Tight on fencing outside the prison 6. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeff Monroe, Karen Pulley’s brother-in-law: "We have waited 37 years for justice, and we understand taking life is serious. We don't take any pleasure in it. However, the victims, and there were many, were carefully stalked and attacked. The crimes, and there were many, were deliberate, violent, and horrific. Nichols was a violent perpetrator who hunted his victims, stalked them, and then attacked vulnerable women in the most sadistic ways. Our family was destroyed by evil that night in September 1988, when Karen was raped and violently beaten to death in her own bedroom, left to die alone, terribly injured, broken, bleeding, and terrified. Karen was 20. She had just finished Bible school and was attending Chattanooga State to become a paralegal." 7. Wide of Jeff Monroe leaving the press conference 8. SOUNDBITE (English) Travis Loller, The Associated Press: "The pastor had his hand on Nichols' left shoulder, and was standing behind him from our perspective. They were nodding at each other, and they were sort of continued talking softly. I couldn't hear everything that they said, or I couldn't hear most of what they said, but I did hear the pastor say, 'Go in peace, my friend. I love you,' and Mr. Nichols was nodding at him. At one point he said, 'You'll be looking down on us. I know that.' The pastor said that." 9. Tight of a photo of Karen Pulley 10. SOUNDBITE (English) Travis Loller, The Associated Press: "At 10:30:18, we could see Mr. Nichols take a very large breath, and you could see his torso rise up. Then he took a series of these sort of huffing breaths that people said, sort of maybe a snoring or snorting kind of sound. And you could literally see his mustache rising like he was breathing through his mouth, about 10 breaths like that. Then it became harder to tell whether he was breathing. His breath became much shallower." 11. Wide of a sign showing entrance for people opposed to the death penalty 12. Wide of people waiting outside the prison 13. SOUNDBITE (English) J.R. Davis, spiritual advisor, reading a poem written by the inmate Harold Wayne Nichols: "'Start with your family, with your daughters and your sons. Tell them you love them when each day is done. Then go to your neighbor, who once you did spite, and seek forgiveness, then make things right.'" 14. Wide low shot of images of Karen Pulley STORYLINE: Tennessee executed Harold Wayne Nichols by lethal injection Thursday in Nashville for the 1988 rape and murder of Karen Pulley, a 20-year-old student at Chattanooga State University. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to issue a stay of the execution on Thursday. =========================================================== Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...