Execution

• Judge declines to halt execution of Georgia man seeking protection under pandemic agreement - A federal judge declined Wednesday to halt next week's scheduled execution of a Georgia man who argued that he should be shielded by an agreement reached during the COVID-19 pandemic that set conditions for the state to resume putting conde
• Tennessee executes Harold Wayne Nichols by lethal injection for killing college student in 1988 - 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 Community College. Nichols, 64, had confessed to killing Pulley as w
• Harold Wayne Nichols dies in third Tennessee execution of 2025 - Harold Wayne Nichols was sentenced to death in the killing of 20-year-old Karen Pulley.