NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Harold Wayne Nichols death will be carried out by lethal injection on December 11 for the rape and murder of Karen Pulley. Pulley was a 20-year-old student at Chattanooga State.

Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 10 a.m. Dec. 11. Nichols, 64, was sentenced to death for the brutal beating and rape of 20-year-old Karen ...

Karen Pulley, 20, was brutally beaten and raped in the home she shared with two other women on Sept. 30, 1988. During a three month period spanning the end of 1988 and beginning of 1989, Nichols raped ...

FILE - This undated photo released by the Tennessee Department of Corrections shows Harold Nichols in Tennessee. (Tennessee Department of Corrections via the Chattanooga Free Press via AP, File) ...