Alabama Executes Jeremy Williams — His Final Words Were About Forgiveness

Convicted killer and rapist, Jeremy Williams, is now dead following his execution tonight at Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore. >> Williams had asked the state to move forward with his death sentence after pleading guilty to killing 5-year-old Kamari Holland. What happened? >> It is the 13th of August, 2026.

The place is Atmore, Alabama. Inside a small room, a man lies strapped to a table. His name is Jeremy Williams. In a few minutes, the state will end his life. At 6:16 in the evening, he is pronounced dead. But before that, he spoke. His final words were about forgiveness. He said he thanked God for forgiving his sins so he could meet him in peace.

Peace. That is the word he chose. The district attorney did not accept that word. He said it plainly, “That baby did not die in peace.” Here is what makes this case strange. Jeremy Williams pleaded guilty. Then he asked the court to skip his own appeals. He wanted to die faster than the law usually allows.

 Most people on death row fight for more time. He did not. Was this guilt? Was this fear? Or was it something else? Something he never wanted the world to find out. That question is where this story begins. Before we go further, hit subscribe and turn on notifications. You will not want to miss how this one ends. Kamari Holland was 5 years old.

 Court records and family interviews describe a bright little girl who loved to play dress-up. She loved her princess costumes. She loved Halloween most of all. Picking out costumes and wearing them again and again just for fun. Her father, Corey Holland, held sole custody of her. That means the law placed her care fully in his hands.

 He was the one responsible for her safety, her home, her daily life. But, Kamari’s mother, Christy Sipple, was still part of her world. Under a trust-based visitation arrangement, Corey allowed Christy to spend time with Kamari. This is a common and normal thing. A father trusting a mother to care for her own daughter is not unusual.

 It is what most families do. Corey later remembered his daughter with warmth. He said she loved playing dress-up, all her little Halloween costumes and her princess things he had bought her. She was, by every account, a joyful child, a little girl who brought laughter into a room. But, in December of 2021, a simple, trusted arrangement placed Kamari inside a home where she was not safe.

 Nobody could have known it at the time. On the surface, it looked like nothing more than a mother spending time with her daughter. It was anything but that. What happened inside that home would change everything. And it began with a decision no parent should ever be forced to face. Jeremy Williams was, by 2021, splitting his life between two cities that sit almost on top of each other.

One side of the state line was Columbus, Georgia. The other side was Phenix City, Alabama. He moved easily between both. On the surface, he looked like an ordinary man living an ordinary life. But, underneath that surface, warning signs had followed him for years. In 2009, Williams was charged in a case involving a child.

 A jury acquitted him in 2012, and he walked free. To the public, that was the end of it. On paper, he was no longer a suspect of anything. But, there was an older, darker chapter that had never been closed. Back in 2005, Williams’ own infant daughter died in North Pole, Alaska. She was only 1 month old.

 At the time, investigators could not prove what had happened. Williams refused to take a polygraph test. He refused to answer questions. The case was filed away as undetermined, neither solved nor cleared. For more than a decade after that, Jeremy Williams lived his life without formal accusation. No charges, no trial.

 Just an old file sitting quietly in a drawer somewhere in Alaska. But patterns like this do not simply disappear. Two separate cases involving two very young children had already crossed his path before December of 2021. Nobody had connected them yet. Nobody knew a third case was coming, and this time there would be no undetermined ending.

In December of 2021, Jeremy Williams was in a relationship with Kristy Sipple, a woman he had met online. Their relationship had been developing for some time by the point this story reaches its darkest turn. Court records indicate that in the days before Kamari’s death, a conversation took place between Williams and Sipple.

It was not about babysitting. It was not about a normal visit. Court records indicate the two discussed a sum of money in exchange for access to Kamari. Court records indicate the first number raised was $2,500. Williams pushed back, calling it too high. Court records indicate the two continued negotiating, going back and forth until they landed on a final figure, $1,300.

Two adults discussing a price over a 5-year-old child. There is no way to soften that fact. Court records confirm it happened exactly this way in the days leading up to December the 13th, what they agreed to next is something no parent should ever have to hear. And the most disturbing part is this. Court records show that in the end, Jeremy Williams never even paid the money he had promised.

 He took what he wanted and he did not pay a cent for it. That is where this story turns from disturbing to unthinkable. And what happened in the hours that followed would shock even seasoned investigators. Every crime like this needs someone on the inside. In this case, that person was Kamari’s own mother, Kristy Sipple. Court records do not name any other conspirator.

 There was no third person involved in the planning. There was no weapon to buy, no gun, no knife. What was coming did not require one. The plan itself was simple and that is part of what makes it so disturbing. Court records indicate that in the early hours of December the 13th, 2021, while it was still dark outside, Jeremy Williams came to the home where Kamari was staying with her mother.

 He removed Kamaria from that home before sunrise. Court records confirm the timing lines up exactly with the pre-dawn hours of that morning. There was no forced entry. There was no struggle at the door. Kristy Sipple had already agreed to what was happening. The door did not need to be broken. It only needed to be opened.

Before we go further into what happened that morning, take a second to like this video and drop a comment below. If a story like this deserves attention, let the algorithm know. Now, back to December the 13th. A little girl was taken from the only home she had that night. And within hours, she would be gone forever.

It was still dark on the morning of December the 13th, 2021, when Jeremy Williams took Kamari from the home, his first stop was his own place in Columbus, Georgia, but his wife was there. Court records and later reporting confirm she saw him standing with a young child and immediately told him he could not stay.

 She turned him away. That refusal did not stop him. It only changed his direction. Williams then drove across the state line into Phenix City, Alabama. He went to a vacant duplex he had once owned, a property standing empty where no neighbors would hear anything unusual. For the next 2 hours, according to court records and Williams’ own later confession to detectives, he assaulted Kamarie.

He recorded parts of what he did on his phone. At some point during the assault, he strangled her. Investigators later said Williams told them himself that it did not happen quickly. He said he believed it was over at one point. Then, he said, she gasped for air. He continued until she stopped breathing entirely.

Even after her death, Williams did not leave. Court records confirm an additional charge was filed against him, abuse of a corpse. The details of what that charge covers are contained in the court record, and this video will not describe them further. Some facts are better left in the paperwork where they belong.

He then covered her with a tarp, left her in the duplex, and walked out. That same morning, while Kamarie’s body lay in that empty building, her mother, Kristy Sipple, called the police. She reported Kamarie missing. She told officers she had put Kamarie to bed around midnight and woken up to find her gone, the front door standing open.

She suggested a stranger had come in during the night and taken her. It was a complete fabrication, but at the time, no one knew that. Search parties formed. Volunteers, officers, and residents from two towns spread out looking for a 5-year-old girl. Flyers went up. Neighbors joined the search. The whole town was looking for a little girl her own mother already knew was gone.

Kristy Siple even appeared on television crying, telling reporters Kamarie was the essence of her life. She said she could not understand what had happened. She said this knowing exactly where her daughter was. She said this knowing exactly who she had allowed into that home and why. While the community searched in hope, the truth was already sealed.

 Kamarie was gone and the search for answers was only beginning. Within hours of reporting Kamarie missing, Kristy Siple sat down in front of a television camera. She let the tears come. She told reporters that Kamarie was the essence of her life, that she lived for her daily, that she simply could not understand what had happened.

 She said, “I’m a mommy and I did not have nothing to do with this.” To anyone watching, it looked like a mother in agony. But investigators listening closely noticed something different. Her story had gaps. An open door with no sign of a break-in, no footprints, no witnesses who saw a stranger anywhere near the home. Small details that did not add up even in those first hours.

 Meanwhile, the community kept searching. Volunteers walked fields and streets in Columbus and Phenix City. Officers coordinated search routes across both towns. Flyers with Kamarie’s photo went up on doors and windows. Kamarie’s father, Corey Holland, was living every parent’s nightmare. But something beyond fear was building in him.

 Court records and later interviews show that as the hours passed, his suspicion grew that this was not a random disappearance. Something about the story did not sit right. He was not alone in that feeling. Investigators were already beginning to ask the same question. If a stranger really took Kamarie, where was the evidence of one? The search for a missing child was about to become something far darker.

Days before Kamarie disappeared, a woman had come forward to police with an unrelated report. She said Jeremy Williams had assaulted her and during that assault, he made a disturbing statement referencing a 5-year-old child. At the time, it seemed unconnected to anything. Once Kamarie went missing, investigators pulled that report back out.

 It gave them enough to act. Court records confirmed this statement became the basis for a search warrant on Williams’ property. When officers searched a shed behind one of his properties, they found two things that stopped them cold. A small child-size chair and a sandwich with a single bite taken out of it. Small, ordinary objects, but in this context, they pointed to something far from ordinary.

 Around the same time, officers located Jeremy Williams at a motel in Phenix City and took him into custody. But Williams would not talk. He refused to tell investigators where Kamarie was. Hours passed. The search parties were still out looking, still hoping. Investigators had a suspect in custody, but without a location, they had nothing to bring to that little girl’s family.

 Then, something changed. Someone close to Williams was about to give investigators exactly what they needed. The turning point came from someone close to Jeremy Williams. His own wife came forward and gave investigators an address, a vacant duplex in Phenix City. She told them plainly, “If he had done something to that little girl, that is where she would be.

” Officers went to the property. In the basement, under a tarp, they found Kamari. What investigators found in that basement is something even hardened detectives couldn’t shake. One investigator later said simply that he had seen a small child brutally assaulted and killed. Men who had spent years in law enforcement, who had seen difficult scenes before, said this was the one they carried home with them.

Christie Sipple was arrested and charged in connection with Kamari’s death. Court records show she faced serious charges tied directly to her role in what happened. Weeks later, on Christmas night, Jeremy Williams asked to speak to a jail lieutenant. He said he had been praying and wanted to make things right before facing execution.

In that conversation, he confessed to killing Kamari. Then he kept talking. He admitted to abusing his own infant daughter years earlier, back when his family lived in Alaska. That confession reopened a case that had sat unsolved for 16 years. Investigators in Alaska reexamined the 2005 death of his 1-month-old daughter, this time with new information they never had before.

One confession had just connected two children, two states, and two decades of unanswered questions. In April of 2024, Jeremy Williams stood trial. He had already pleaded guilty. He had already asked to move the process forward as fast as possible. But Alabama law does not allow a guilty plea alone to settle a capital case.

 A jury still had to see the evidence, even though Williams had admitted everything. Williams instructed his attorney not to contest a single piece of it. When his lawyer asked whether he wanted anything argued in his defense. William said he wanted them to say nothing. For 3 days, 15 jurors sat through evidence, including footage Williams had recorded on his own phone.

 11 women and four men had to watch and listen to what he had done. Court staff outside the room, who could only hear the audio, were visibly shaken. Officers in the courtroom struggled to hold themselves together. On April the 12th, 2024, the jury convicted Williams on four counts of capital murder, along with additional charges including abuse of a child and abuse of a corpse.

 Three days later, the judge sentenced him to death on all four capital counts. Before that sentence came down, the people who loved Kamari as stood and spoke. Her father, Corey Holland, told Williams directly that he did not deserve to live. Her 13-year-old sister’s words were read aloud, saying she did not understand why anyone would hurt someone so sweet.

 Her grandmother asked what kind of person could do this. Williams’ own ex-wife called him soulless. Meanwhile, Kristy Siple reached a plea deal. Prosecutors dropped her murder charge. She pleaded guilty to trafficking and received 20 years. One parent would eventually walk free. The other would never come home. In 2025, Jeremy Williams made an unusual choice. He fired his lawyers.

 He asked the court to waive his remaining appeals and let his execution move forward. Alabama law still required one automatic review of every death sentence, whether the condemned man wanted it or not. In March of 2026, the appeals court reviewed the case and upheld the sentence in full. The Alabama Supreme Court followed in June, clearing the way for a death warrant.

 Governor Kay Ivey set the execution date for August the 13th, 2026. On his final day, Williams was not alone. His mother visited. So did his father, his stepmother, and his brother. The night before, he spoke by phone with his grandmother and his aunt. His wife also came, the same woman who had turned him away the night of the murder, and who had later given police the address that led them to Kamarie.

For his last meal, Williams asked for cheese pizza. That evening at 5:53, the curtains to the witness room opened. Eight people sat on the other side of the glass. An official read the death warrant aloud. Then came his final words, the same words that opened this story. Thanks for forgiveness and a wish for peace.

At 6:16 in the evening, Jeremy Williams was pronounced dead. His execution was one of three carried out across the United States that same day. It was the first time three executions had happened on a single day in the country since 2010. Kristy Sipple remained behind bars, serving her 20-year sentence, still years away from release.

Kamarie Holland never got the childhood she deserved. No prom, no graduation, no wedding day. Those moments were taken from her before she ever had the chance to imagine them. Kristy Sipple, the mother who allowed this to happen, will one day walk free. Her 20-year sentence will end. She will get to grow old.

 She will get everything Kamarie never will. Jeremy Williams, in his final act, chose speed over accountability. He waived his appeals, rushed his own execution, and spoke of peace in his last words. But that peace was alone. He chose himself right up until the very end. Kamari Holland never got a choice at all. This case leaves behind hard questions about trust, about warning signs missed for years, and about a justice system forced to move at the pace of the man who caused all of it.

What moment in this story hit you hardest? Was it the sandwich in the shed, the mother’s fake tears on television, or his final words on the gurney? Tell us in the comments below. And if stories like this matter to you, subscribe, hit the notification bell, and stay with us for the next case.