On Thursday, Governor Kay Ivey set a 30-hour window for the execution of Jeremy Tremaine Williams, the man convicted of the December 2021 kidnapping, rape, and murder of 5-year-old Kamarie Holland in Phenix City.
In a letter to Alabama Department of Corrections Commissioner Greg Lovelace, Ivey directed that the execution take place between 12:00 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 13, and 6:00 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 14. The window follows an order issued Tuesday by the Alabama Supreme Court authorizing the commissioner to carry out the sentence.
Ivey wrote that she has “no current plans to grant clemency” but retains her constitutional authority to grant a reprieve or commutation at any time before the execution is carried out.
The state’s high court granted the execution motion in a unanimous order, with Chief Justice Sarah Stewart and Justices Shaw, Wise, Bryan, Sellers, Mendheim, Cook, McCool, and Parker all concurring. The order itself constitutes Williams’s execution warrant.
Williams, 41, was convicted in April 2024 on four counts of capital murder and sentenced to death by Russell County Circuit Judge David A. Johnson. A jury found him guilty of capital murder in the death of Kamarie Holland, who was taken from her Columbus, Georgia, home and killed across the state line in Alabama.
Williams had paid the child’s mother, Kristy Siple, $2,500 in the lead-up to the crime, which he recorded on his cellphone. Siple was also charged in connection with her daughter’s death. WTVMTrue Crime News
The path to a death warrant moved unusually fast for an Alabama capital case. In May 2025, Williams waived his remaining appeals and asked the state to carry out his sentence. The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed his conviction and death sentence in March 2026 under the automatic review required in capital cases. The Attorney General’s Office filed its motion asking the Supreme Court to authorize the execution on May 15.
Russell County District Attorney Rick Chancey, who prosecuted the case, has said the timeline accelerated only because Williams dropped his appeals.
