Execution carried out for Jeremy Williams, convicted child rapist, murderer
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Last Thursday evening, August 13, the execution was carried out for death row inmate Jeremy Tremaine Williams, convicted child rapist and murderer.
That evening Gov. Kay Ivey informed Corrections Commissioner Greg Lovelace that she would not exercise her clemency powers in this case and directed him to proceed with Williams’ lawfully imposed death sentence for the 2021 capital murder of 5-year-old Kamarie Holland.
On December 13, 2021, Williams paid the mother of Kamarie Holland $2,500 so he could sexually abuse her five-year-old child for one hour. During that time, he subjected the little girl to methamphetamine and prolonged sexual abuse, including rape, before strangling her to death, leaving her lifeless body beneath a tarp while recording his episode of evil on his cell phone.
Ivey issued the following comment:
“There are few words to adequately describe the depth and depravity of Jeremy Williams’ evil act. The unspeakable nature of this crime is exactly why we have the death penalty statute in the state of Alabama. Kamarie Holland is an innocent girl who is no longer with us, but she finally received justice tonight. May God bless little Kamarie Holland.”
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall also issued a statement last Thursday evening following the execution of Williams by lethal injection at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore:
“Justice has been served. In addition to molesting and murdering 5-year-old Kamarie Holland in 2021, Williams confessed to a series of violent crimes against children. He killed his infant daughter in Alaska, raped at least two other small children and sexually abused his young cousin. At his own request, his execution was set and carried out. This is one of the most atrocious crimes we have seen against an innocent child. This lack of humanity is hard to comprehend.
“For her entire life, little Kamarie was exploited by the people around her who were supposed to keep her safe. First, by a father who refused to follow a court order keeping Kamarie and her brother away from their mother, then by a mother who sold her innocent child, and then by Williams, who assaulted and murdered her. 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.’
“My office will always stand for victims and fight to ensure that the perpetrators who commit the most violent crimes in Alabama are punished to the maximum extent of the law. It is my sincere hope tonight that survivors of Williams’s crimes know that he can never hurt them, or another innocent child, again.”
Attorney General Marshall cleared the execution to commence at 5:53 p.m.
Jeremy Williams’s time of death was 6:16 p.m.
Legal Summary: State of Alabama v. Jeremy T. Williams
On December 12, 2021, Jeremy Williams convinced Kristy Siple to sell him her 5-year-old daughter, Kamarie Holland, for one hour of oral sex. Williams agreed to return the girl to her mother afterward, but he never returned Kamarie.
The victim was taken from Siple’s home in Columbus, Georgia, to the defendant’s home, and then to an abandoned house in Phenix City, Alabama. There, Williams threatened and physically assaulted Kamarie, forcing the child to perform sexual acts on him.
He then raped her while recording the acts on his cell phone. The videos show Williams repeatedly threatening Kamarie with physical violence. At some point during the assault, Williams strangled Kamarie to death.
Video evidence was also submitted at trial of Williams sexually abusing Kamarie’s corpse. After hiding Kamarie’s body, Williams returned to Columbus and changed the tires on his vehicle.
Williams was arrested in a hotel room in Phenix City. Authorities found drug paraphernalia and an open computer, on which he was searching for local attorneys. While Williams was in custody, law enforcement found Kamarie’s body.
On Christmas Day 2021, Williams made a five-hour recorded statement to law enforcement in which he admitted to taking, sodomizing, raping, and strangling Kamarie. He also confessed to making the little girl smoke methamphetamine.
Williams then confessed to raping at least two other children who were less than 6 years old at the time of the abuse. Both of those previously unreported abuses were confirmed by the victims.
Williams additionally confessed to murdering his one-month-old daughter in Alaska.
On March 26, 2024, Williams entered guilty pleas in Russell County Circuit Court to four counts of capital murder. He also pleaded guilty to the production of obscene material involving Kamarie, the abuse of her corpse and human trafficking and conspiracy to commit human trafficking of Kamarie.
Additionally, Williams pleaded guilty to the sodomy and sexual abuse of his cousin, who was less than 12 at the time of the offense.
Following his sentencing, Williams wrote a series of letters indicating his desire to drop his appeals and be immediately executed.
Alabama law mandates that the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals review death-sentenced cases, and that court affirmed Williams’s capital murder convictions and death sentence on March 27, 2026. The Alabama Supreme Court authorized Williams’s execution on June 16, and Gov. Ivey scheduled it two days later.
Attorney General Marshall thanks the Office of the Attorney General’s Capital Litigation Division and Victims’ Services Unit, and the Russell County District Attorney’s Office, for their work in this difficult case.
The Alabama Department of Corrections reported that on August 12, the day prior to his execution, Williams had five visitors and two phone calls. He accepted his breakfast, lunch and dinner trays. He also had assorted vending machine snacks and sodas throughout the day.
On August 13, he had six visitors and no phone calls. He refused his breakfast tray, accepted his lunch tray and refused his dinner tray. In addition, he had a Philly cheesesteak sandwich and assorted snacks throughout the day. His final meal request was a cheese pizza.
The inmate’s remains will be released to the Escambia County coroner and transported to the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences (Mobile Lab) for a postmortem examination.
