Alabama Set To Carry Out Execution This Week

Alabama is preparing to execute Jeremy Williams, who pled guilty to the 2021 rape and murder of five-year-old Kamarie Holland.

The execution is scheduled for Thursday (August 13) at the Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Alabama.

Williams, who is 41, requested the death penalty and waived his right to appeal, making this the first execution in Alabama this year.

Williams was convicted of capital murder after admitting to sexually assaulting and killing Kamarie Holland. According to USA TODAY, he had also recorded the crime.

The victim's mother, Kristy Siple, sold her daughter to Williams for $2,500 and drugs. She is currently serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking.

The case has drawn significant attention due to the heinous nature of the crime.

Williams' decision to expedite his execution is unusual, as most death row inmates often prolong the process through appeals.

WTVM reports that Williams has been described as "non-remorseful" by District Attorney Rick Chancey.

Governor Kay Ivey scheduled Williams' execution after the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed his conviction in March.

This marks the third execution date set by Ivey this year, though the previous two were not carried out.

The state plans to use lethal injection for the execution, as noted by the Alabama Reflector.

The execution of Williams is part of a broader trend in Alabama, which executed five people in 2025. If carried out, Williams will be the 22nd person executed in the United States this year.

The crime

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On Dec. 13, 2021, Williams took Kamarie from her home in Columbus City, Georgia, after agreeing to pay Siple to sexually abuse the 5-year-old, police say. They believe Siple wanted the money for drugs.

From there, Williams put Kamarie through unimaginable hell, including making her smoke meth, raping her while filming it, strangling her and then continuing to sexually abuse her after she was dead, according to police.

Police arrested Williams before they knew what had happened to the little girl but he wasn't talking. The entire department was working to find her and desperately hoped that she was alive somewhere.

Edenfield and another property crime detective, Braden Dobbins, were interviewing people who knew Williams. A comment one of them made to Dobbins stuck with him, Edenfield told USA TODAY. "If something happened to that little girl, she's going to be at this house in Phenix City" that was owned by Williams' family but sitting empty, Edenfield recalled.

It was 10 p.m.; the abandoned house was in another jurisdiction, and it felt like a long shot, but Dobbins had one of those feelings about the tip.

"Braden looked at me, and he says, 'Sarge, I tell ya, if you seen the look on this lady's face,'" Edenfield said. "Everyone else was tied up. His heart felt it, and me knowing and trusting in him, the two of us said, 'Let's go.'"

Edenfield said they were driven by a sense of urgency because they thought Kamarie might still be alive.

"You see TV shows and movies where it's 'We've got him in custody. What if she's tied up somewhere and locked in a room or a cage and can't get out?'" she said.

Edenfield and Dobbins arrived at the abandoned house, which was owned by Williams' family. But it was nothing like the movies. They didn't find her alive.

Kamarie had been dumped in an outdoor cellar, her battered body left up against a wall in such a way that Edenfield at first thought she was a doll. It's an image that will never leave Edenfield or Dobbins, who at the time had a 5-year-old daughter himself.

"For a long time it just ate Braden and I up," she said. "Could we have done more? Could we have gotten there sooner? The assistant district attorney told me that by the time we got to the house, she had already passed, but it's still in your mind. You "what if?' yourself to death."

Sources: whoradio.iheart.com, Staff; USA Today, Amanda Lee Myers, August 11-6, 2026

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