Alabama executed Jeremy Tremaine Williams on Thursday for the 2021 rape and murder of 5-year-old Kamarie Holland, a crime the judge who sentenced him described as “so shockingly evil.”

Williams was put to death by lethal injection at William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore. Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall cleared the execution to begin at 5:53 p.m., and Williams was pronounced dead at 6:16 p.m.

“Justice has been served,” Marshall said following the execution.

“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.”

Williams was sentenced to death for what happened to Kamarie after her mother, Kristy Siple, agreed to sell her 5-year-old daughter to Williams for sexual purposes.

According to the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals, Siple agreed to let Williams take Kamarie in exchange for $2,500. Williams, who told investigators he never intended to pay Siple, took the child from her Columbus, Georgia, home to Alabama, where prosecutors said he sexually assaulted and killed her before hiding her body and returning to Columbus. Video evidence of the abuse was later presented at trial.

Williams was arrested in a Phenix City hotel room, and law enforcement found Kamarie’s body while he was in custody.

On Christmas Day 2021, Williams gave investigators a five-hour recorded statement in which he admitted taking, sodomizing, raping and strangling Kamarie. He also admitted making the 5-year-old smoke methamphetamine.

Kamarie was not the only child Williams admitted abusing.

Marshall said Kamarie’s short life was marked by failures from those who should have protected her.

“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.”

Marshall also pointed to the trial court’s assessment of Williams’ crimes. At sentencing, the court described his actions as “so shockingly evil” and said there was no sentence it could impose that would give Williams what he truly deserved.

Williams entered guilty pleas in Russell County Circuit Court on March 13, 2024, to four counts of capital murder in Kamarie’s death. Although he pleaded guilty, Alabama law required the state to prove the capital charges beyond a reasonable doubt to a jury. The jury later found Williams guilty on all four counts.

All four counts involved the same victim — not four separate killings. The counts were based on the murder of a child younger than 14 and the fact that Kamarie was killed during a kidnapping, rape and first-degree sodomy.

Williams also pleaded guilty to production of obscene material involving Kamarie, abuse of her corpse, human trafficking and conspiracy to commit human trafficking. He also pleaded guilty to sodomy and sexual abuse involving his young cousin.

Following his sentencing, Williams wrote a series of letters indicating he wanted to drop his appeals and be executed immediately.

Alabama law still required the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals to review his capital murder convictions and death sentence. The court affirmed them March 27, 2026. The Alabama Supreme Court authorized Williams’ execution June 16. Two days later, Gov. Kay Ivey set the execution for Aug. 13.

Following Williams’ execution, Marshall said his office would continue to stand with victims.

“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.”

Sherri Blevins is a staff writer for Yellowhammer News. You may contact her at [email protected].