Alabama executes Jeremy Tremaine Williams for 2021 murder of 5-year-old Kamarie Holland
Alabama carried out the execution of Jeremy Tremaine Williams Thursday evening for the 2021 capital murder of 5-year-old Kamarie Holland.
Williams was executed by lethal injection at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore. Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall cleared the execution to proceed at 5:53 p.m., and Williams was pronounced dead at 6:16 p.m. CDT.
Gov. Kay Ivey declined to grant Williams clemency Thursday, allowing his death sentence to be carried out.
Williams pleaded guilty in March 2024 to four counts of capital murder in Russell County Circuit Court, along with charges involving the production of obscene material involving Kamarie, abuse of her corpse, human trafficking and conspiracy to commit human trafficking. He also pleaded guilty to the sodomy and sexual abuse of a young cousin.
According to the Alabama Attorney General’s Office, Williams convinced Kamarie’s mother, Kristy Siple, to sell him the five-year-old child for one hour of oral sex in December 2021. Williams agreed to return Kamarie afterward but never did.
Kamarie was taken from her mother’s home in Columbus, Georgia, to Williams’ residence and then to an abandoned house in Phenix City, Alabama. Prosecutors said Williams physically assaulted and threatened Kamarie, forced her to perform sexual acts and raped her while recording the abuse on his cellphone.
Williams ultimately strangled Kamarie to death. Evidence presented at trial also included video of Williams sexually abusing Kamarie’s body after her death.
After hiding Kamarie’s body, Williams returned to Columbus and changed the tires on his vehicle.
Williams was later arrested at a hotel in Phenix City. Authorities found drug paraphernalia and an open computer on which Williams had been searching for local attorneys.
On Christmas Day 2021, Williams gave law enforcement a recorded statement lasting approximately five hours. According to the Attorney General’s Office, he admitted to taking Kamarie, sexually abusing her, raping and strangling her, and making her smoke methamphetamine.
While in custody, Williams also confessed to additional crimes against children.
Marshall said Williams confessed to raping at least two other children who were younger than 6 at the time of the abuse. The Attorney General’s Office said both previously unreported cases were later confirmed by the victims.
Williams also confessed to murdering his one-month-old daughter in Alaska.
In a statement following Thursday’s execution, Marshall said, “Justice has been served.”
“This is one of the most atrocious crimes we have seen against an innocent child,” Marshall said. “This lack of humanity is hard to comprehend.”
Marshall also addressed the circumstances surrounding Kamarie’s life, saying she was “exploited by the people around her who were supposed to keep her safe.”
“At trial, the court wrote that Williams’s actions ‘were so shockingly evil in everything that you did that there’s nothing that I can order to give you what you truly deserve,’” Marshall said.
Marshall said his office will continue to advocate for victims and seek the maximum punishment allowed by Alabama law for violent offenders.
“It is my sincere hope tonight that survivors of Williams’s crimes know that he can never hurt them, or another innocent child, again,” Marshall said.
Following his sentencing, Williams wrote a series of letters expressing his desire to abandon his appeals and be executed as soon as possible.
Under Alabama law, death sentences are subject to appellate review. The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed Williams’ capital murder convictions and death sentence on March 27, 2026. The Alabama Supreme Court authorized the execution on June 16, and Gov. Ivey scheduled it two days later.
In a statement following the execution, Ivey said there were “few words to adequately describe the depth and depravity” of Williams’ actions and said Kamarie “finally received justice tonight.”
Kamarie Holland was 5 years old when she was killed in December 2021.
Williams’ execution marks the conclusion of the criminal case against the man convicted of her murder.
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