Man Executed In Rape, Death Of GA Girl

MONTGOMERY, AL — A man was executed in Alabama on Thursday night, two years after acknowledging he raped and killed a 5-year-old Georgia girl.

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall approved the execution of Jeremy Tremaine Williams to start at 5:53 p.m., and Williams' time of death was called at 6:16 p.m., according to Marshall's office.

Williams died by lethal injection at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Alabama.

“I want to thank God for forgiving me for my sins so I can meet Him in peace,” Williams said while on the gurney, per the Alabama Daily News.

Williams requested his immediate execution so the young girl's family could have "some type of closure," according to the news report.

One of his family members reportedly cried softly throughout the execution.

What Happened?

The execution of Williams comes more than four years after he convinced Kristy Siple to sell her 5-year-old daughter, Kamarie Holland, to him for the purposes of oral sex for an hour on Dec. 12, 2021, according to Marshall's office.

The Alabama Daily News reported Williams paid $2,500 for the sex act.

Williams agreed to return Holland to Siple afterwards, but Marshall said Williams never returned.

Instead, Holland was taken from Siple's Columbus home to Williams' home before being taken to an abandoned house in Phenix City, Alabama, Marshall said.

At the Alabama home, Williams forced Holland to perform sexual acts on him, threatened her and physically assaulted her, Marshall said.

He then raped her and recorded the acts on his cell phone. Marshall said the videos showed Williams constantly threatening Holland with physical harm.

During the assault, Williams strangled Holland to death, Marshall said.

During the trial against Williams, video evidence showed him sexually abusing Holland's corpse, Marshall said. After hiding her body, Marshall said Williams drove to Columbus and changed the tires of his vehicle.

At some point, Williams was arrested in a Phenix City hotel room. Local authorities found drug paraphernalia and an open computer he was using to search for local attorneys.

With Williams in custody, authorities found Holland's body, Marshall said.

That Christmas Day, Williams acknowledged taking, sodomizing, raping and strangling Holland during a five-hour recorded statement, Marshall said.

Additionally, he acknowledged forcing Holland to smoke methamphetamine and raping at least two other children who were younger than age 6 when the abuse occurred.

"Both of those previously unreported abuses were confirmed by the victims," Marshall's office stated.

Furthermore, Williams acknowledged killing his 1-month-old daughter in Alaska, Marshall said.

Williams pled guilty to four counts of capital murder on March 26, 2024 in Russell County (Alabama) Circuit Court. He also pled guilty to producing obscene material involving Holland, abusing her corpse, human trafficking and conspiracy to commit human trafficking of Holland.

In relation to the abuse of his cousin, who was younger than age 12 at the time of the abuse, Marshall said Williams pled guilty to sodomy and sexual abuse.

"Because of Mr. Williams’s guilty plea, he was not allowed to challenge the admissibility of the state’s inflammatory and prejudicial evidence," the Equal Justice Initiative stated Thursday.

"And in an effort to spare jurors a drawn-out trial, Mr. Williams had instructed his lawyer not to object to anything the prosecutors did during trial, leaving constitutional errors unchallenged. Mr. Williams was convicted on April 12, 2024. Mr. Williams waived sentencing by a jury and did not present any mitigating evidence—which is typically presented in a capital sentencing hearing to provide support for a sentence of life imprisonment without parole instead of death. With no mitigating evidence to consider, the trial court sentenced Mr. Williams to death."

After the sentencing, Williams wrote letters to note he wanted to drop his appeals and immediately be executed, Marshall said.

Per state law, the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals must review cases with death sentences. On March 27, the appeals court affirmed both Williams' capital murder convictions and the death sentence, Marshall said.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey scheduled the execution of Williams on June 18, two days after the Alabama Supreme Court authorized it. It was reportedly Alabama's first execution this year.

Siple pled guilty to sex trafficking and is serving a 20-year prison sentence, the Alabama Daily News reported.

“Justice has been served. ... 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," Marshall said in a news release.

"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.”