For Immediate Release:
August 13, 2026
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(Montgomery, Ala) – Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall issued a statement Thursday evening following the execution of Jeremy Tremaine Williams by lethal injection at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore:
“Justice has been served. In addition to molesting and murdering five-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 five-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 six 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 twelve 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 Governor 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.
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