NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Thursday morning, another death row execution was carried out by the State. Harold Wayne Nichols was the third man to be executed in Tennessee in 2025.

Nichols pleaded guilty to raping and killing a 20-year-old woman named Karen Pulley in 1988.

Both Pulley's and Nichols' family members attended the execution on Thursday, as did one of our journalists, NewsChannel 5 digital producer Holly Lehren.

She shared about her experience as a media witness, starting with the complex emotions that are at play.

"For me, I just felt like this heaviness...just grow and grow," she explained. "I became very aware of the time, I kept checking the clock in 4-minute increments almost exactly...it was very strange. And other people who had done this before were trying to keep it

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