The total Grinches on the US Supreme Court – along with crotchety old Tennessee Governor Billy Lee said “Bah humbug!” to condemned serial rapist and murderer Harold Wayne Nichols’s pleas for just a little clemency this holiday season, ending with Nichols visiting the Ghost of Christmas Future permanently at 10:39 AM CT on Thursday, USA Today reports on a Christmas non-miracle.
It’s not clear if the prison’s death row has a “Secret Santa” exchange but at least Nichols died knowing he wouldn’t have to try to acquire another Ken doll for fellow condemned inmate Henry Eugene Hodges, awaiting execution for murdering eight men who had hired him for sex acts.