SPEAKIN’ OUT NEWS
ATMORE, Ala. — Alabama executed Jeremy Tremaine Williams by lethal injection Aug. 13 for the kidnapping, sexual assault and murder of 5-year-old Kamarie Holland, concluding an unusually rapid death-penalty case that Williams asked the state to accelerate.
Williams, 42, was pronounced dead at 6:16 p.m. at William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore. In his final statement, he thanked God for forgiving his sins and said he could “meet him in peace.”
Kamarie disappeared from her Columbus, Georgia, home in December 2021. Investigators traced communications between Williams and the child’s mother, Kristy Siple, before locating Williams at a Phenix City motel. Evidence recovered from his telephone led authorities to Kamarie’s body inside an abandoned Phenix City residence connected to him.
Prosecutors said Williams arranged to pay Siple for access to her daughter before assaulting, recording and strangling the child. Williams pleaded guilty in March 2024, but Alabama law still required prosecutors to present evidence to a jury in the capital case.
Jurors convicted him of four counts of capital murder and additional offenses. He received four death sentences in April 2024.
Williams later dismissed his attorneys, waived further legal challenges and requested an expedited execution. After a judge found him competent to abandon his appeals, the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals conducted its required review and upheld the convictions and sentences.
Gov. Kay Ivey declined to intervene, describing the crime as evil and citing it as justification for capital punishment. Associated Press reported that Williams was one of three people executed in different states that day.
Siple is serving a 20-year sentence after pleading guilty to sex trafficking.