UPDATE: The State of Tennessee has put Harold Wayne Nichols to death for the 1988 rape and murder of ChattState student Karen Pulley.

Officials pronounced him dead at 11:39am EST.

Six witnesses, including Local 3's Michelle Heron, attended the execution. They report seeing both Nichols and the spiritual advisor shedding tears.

"To the people I harmed, I'm sorry," Nichols said before succumbing to the lethal injection. "To my family, know that I love you, I know where I'm going to, I'm ready to go home."

Nichols was on death row for 35 years.

PREVIOUS STORY: Harold Wayne Nichols is set to be executed Thursday morning.

He has spent 35 years on Tennessee's Death Row for the rape and murder of Karen Pulley, 20.

Pulley's sister, Lisette Monroe, is in Nashville ahead of the execution,

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