Lethal injection
- 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
- Florida carries out state's 18th execution of the year - A Florida man convicted of murdering a woman during a robbery was put to death by lethal injection on Tuesday, one of two executions scheduled in the United States this week.There have been 45 executions in the United States this year, the