Jeremy Williams Murders 5 Yr Old Girl

Jeremy Williams was sentenced to death by the State of Georgia for the murder of five year old Kamarie Holland

According to court documents Jeremy Williams would offer the mother of Kamarie Holland $2500 in order to tape a sexual act with the child which the mother, Kristy Marie Siple, also known as Kristy Hoskins, agreed to. After the act was performed Jeremy Williams would murder the child and bring her body to an abandoned home. The mother would eventually report the little girl as missing and she would be found the next day

Jeremy Williams would also confess to the sexual assault and murder of his one month old daughter in Alaska which was a cold case at the time of his arrest for the Kamarie Holland murder

Jeremy Williams would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death

Jeremy Williams Case

The man convicted of kidnapping, sexually assaulting and murdering 5-year-old Kamarie Holland was sentenced to death on Monday, according to al.com.

Jeremy Williams, 40, who was convicted of four capital offenses for the 2021 rape and murder of the Columbus, Georgia, girl, was given the death sentence for each of the four charges, WTVM reported.

Williams received the death penalty for murder of a child less than 14 years old; murder during a rape; murder during sodomy; and murder during a kidnapping, the station reported.

He was also sentenced to life for knowingly recording the acts of rape, and sodomy; 10 years in the Department of Corrections for obstruction of a corpse; life in the Department of Corrections for human trafficking; and 20 years in the Department of Corrections for conspiracy to commit human trafficking.

Williams confessed to raping and murdering Kamarie as well as his 1-month-old daughter in Alaska — a cold case that was reopened after the confession, WRBL reported.

When a sheriff’s deputy asked Williams why he was confessing he said it was because he “wanted to get right with God before he’s executed,” WRBL reported.

The girl’s mother, 35-year-old Kristy Marie Siple, also known as Kristy Hoskins, has also been indicted on felony murder and human trafficking charges after she offered Kamarie to Williams for $2,500.

Kamarie was reported missing by her mother on Dec. 13, 2021. Her body was found in an abandoned home in east Alabama the next day. She had been sexually assaulted and strangled, according to the medical examiner.

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A man convicted for the rape and murder of a 5-year-old Georgia girl has received the death penalty.

Jeremy Williams, 40, was arrested in December 2021 in Alabama and charged with capital murder after the disappearance and death of Kamarie Holland.

According to WSB, police said Hollard’s mother, Kristy Siple, trafficked her daughter to Williams for money.

Prosecutors said Williams forced the child to perform sexual acts before he strangled her.

Williams recently pleaded guilty to four counts of capital murder, obstruction of a corpse, knowingly recording the acts, rape, and sodomy.

Siple pleaded guilty to human sex trafficking.

Williams was sentenced to the death penalty on Monday.

An execution date has not been announced.

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Warren McCleskey Executed For Georgia Officers Murder

Warren McCleskey was executed by the State of Georgia for the murder of Officer Frank Schlatt

According to court documents Warren McCleskey and accomplices would rob a furniture store. The silent alarm was hit without their knowledge and when Officer Frank Schlatt showed up he would be fatally shot

Warren McCleskey would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death

Warren McCleskey would be executed by way of the electric chair on September 25 1991

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Warren McCleskey Case

Warren McCleskey, whose two unsuccessful appeals to the United States Supreme Court helped define death penalty law, was executed this morning after an all-night spasm of legal proceedings that played out like a caricature of the issues his case came to symbolize.

Warren McCleskey, a black, 44-year old factory worker who was convicted of killing a white police officer here during an attempted robbery in 1978, was electrocuted at the state prison in Jackson, Ga., after a series of stays issued by a Federal judge was lifted.

But when he died, after declining a last meal and after being strapped into the chair at one point and then unstrapped three minutes later, his execution added a final chapter to his odyssey through the courts.

In a final legal scramble, the Supreme Court twice refused a stay — once at about 10 P.M. on Tuesday, after a state court denied last-minute appeals, and then just before 3 A.M. today, after a similar appeal was rejected by lower Federal courts. The Court’s 6-to-3 decisions came after the Justices were polled by telephone. A ‘Chaotic’ Appeals Process

Five minutes later, after Warren McCleskey had been strapped into the electric chair, electrodes attached to his skull and a final prayer read, prison officials were told the Supreme Court had rejected a final stay. A minute later the execution began, and he was pronounced dead at 3:13.

A spokesman for the Georgia Department of Pardons and Paroles described the process, which began with the parole board’s denial of a clemency petition on Tuesday, as “chaotic.”

Justice Thurgood Marshall of the Supreme Court, who was one of three dissenters in the Court’s decision not to halt the execution, was considerably more stinging in his dissent.

Justice Marshall, who will retire when his successor is confirmed by the Senate, wrote: “In refusing to grant a stay to review fully McCleskey’s claims, the Court values expediency over human life. Repeatedly denying Warren McCleskey his constitutional rights is unacceptable. Executing him is inexcusable.”

But state officials said Warren McCleskey’s final appeals were typical of the seemingly endless litigation a landmark Supreme Court ruling on his second appeal was intended to stop. Clemency Petition Rejected

On Tuesday morning the five-member Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles turned down Mr. McCleskey’s clemency petition, apparently closing off the last obstacle to an execution. In Georgia, only the board has the authority to commute a death sentence. The board acted despite statements from two jurors that information improperly withheld at the trial tainted their sentence, and that they no longer supported an execution.

Warren McCleskey’s execution was initially scheduled for 7 P.M. Tuesday, but shortly before that Federal District Judge J. Owen Forrester agreed to stay the execution, first until 7:30, then until 10 and then until midnight, to hear a last-minute appeal filed in three different courts.

Judge Forrester denied the appeal after a hearing ended around 11:20 P.M., but he stayed the execution until 2 o’clock this morning to allow lawyers to appeal it. At 2:17 A.M. Mr. McCleskey was into the electric chair, only to be taken away three minutes later when officials learned the High Court was still pondering a stay.

He was placed back in the chair at 2:53 A.M. under the assumption that no news from the Court meant the execution was still on. Word that the Court had denied a stay came just as the execution was ready to begin at 3:04. Two Landmark Rulings

Warren McCleskey, who filed repeated appeals over the 13 years between his conviction and his death and has had a long succession of lawyers, produced two landmark rulings in death penalty law

In 1987, in the last major challenge to the constitutionality of the death penalty, the Supreme Court voted, 5 to 4, that the death penalty was legal despite statistics showing that those who kill white people are far more frequently sentenced to die than are those who kill blacks.

Last April the Court voted, 6 to 3, that Mr. McCleskey’s claim that his sentence was tainted by information withheld from the jury should be rejected because he failed to make the claim on his first habeas corpus petition. In doing so, the Court spelled out strict new guidelines that sharply curtailed the ability of death row inmates and other state prisoners to pursue multiple Federal court appeals.

Mr. McCleskey was the 155th person to be executed since the Supreme Court cleared the way in 1976 for states to resume capital punishment.

Mr. McCleskey admitted to being one of four men involved in a robbery in which Officer Frank Schlatt was killed, but he denied being the one who shot him. None of the other men received the death sentence.

Before the execution he apologized to Officer Schlatt’s family for taking part in the attempted robberry, asked his own family not to be bitter about his death, professed his religious beliefs and decried the use of the death penalty. He neither confessed to being the gunman nor did he say he was innocent of the killing

“I pray that one day this country, supposedly a civilized society, will abolish barbaric acts such as the death penalty,” he said. ’13 Years too Say Goodbye’

Officer Schlatt’s daughter said the execution renewed her faith in the justice system.

“I feel for his family, but he’s had 13 years to say goodbye to his family and to make peace with God,” said Jodie Schlatt Swanner. “I never got to say goodbye to my father. This has nothing to do with vengence. It has to do with justice.”

But Mr. McCleskey’s supporters, who held demonstrations here and in Washington, said Mr. McCleskey’s case from beginning to end was a potent argument against the death penalty as it is used in the United States.

“Ten years ago the idea that we would execute someone in violation of the Constitution was so abhorrent no one could imagine it happening,” said Stephen Bright, director of the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta, which does legal work for the poor. “Now, as a result of the Rehnquist Court, what we’re seeing and what we’re going to see in case after case is people going to the execution chamber in cases in which the jury did not know fundamental things about the case.”

The case against Mr. McCleskey was largely circumstantial. Testimony came from one of the other robbers, who named Mr. McCleskey as the gunman, and from another prisoner, Offie Evans who told jurors Mr. McCleskey had confessed to him in jail.

Jurors were not told that Mr. Evans was a police informer who was led to believe that his sentence would be shortened if he produced incriminating evidence against Mr. McCleskey. His lawyers learned of Mr. Evans’s ties to the police after the trial through documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act

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Thomas Stevens Executed For Roger Honeycutt Murder

Thomas Stevens and Christopher Burger was executed by the State of Georgia for the murder of Roger Honeycutt

According to court documents Thomas Stevens and Christopher Burger would rob a taxi driver Roger Honeycutt. The man would be sexually assaulted before he was stuck into the trunk of a vehicle and the vehicle was pushed into a lake

Thomas Stevens and Christopher Burger would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death

Thomas Stevens would be executed by way of the electric chair on June 29 1993

Christopher Burger would be executed by way of the electric chair on December 7 1993

Thomas Stevens Case

Former GI Thomas Dean Stevens died Monday night in Georgia’s electric chair for the 1977 murder of a Fort Stewart soldier who was moonlighting as a cab driver.

Stevens, 36, was electrocuted at 11:15 p.m. at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center near Jackson.

He had originally been scheduled to die at 7 p.m. but the 11th U.S. District Court of Appeals issued a stay of execution so the case could be appealed to the Supreme Court, which refused to hear the appeal.

Stevens and co-defendant Christopher A. Burger were convicted on Sept. 26, 1978, of the murder of Roger E. Honeycutt, 25, a soldier stationed at Fort Stewart near Savannah, who was moonlighting as a cab driver. Both men were sentenced to death.

On Sept. 5, 1977, Honeycutt was kidnapped at knifepoint, robbed of $16, stripped naked, sodomized, bound with cord and forced into the trunk of his cab, which was later driven into a pond, where the victim drowned.

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Darrell Devier Executed For Mary Stoner Murder

Darrell Devier was executed by the State of Georgia for the murder of Mary Stoner

According to court documents Darrell Devier would abduct twelve year old Mary Stoner as she got off of the school bus. The girl would be brought to a remote location where she was sexually assaulted and beaten to death with rocks

Darrell Devier would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death

Darrell Devier would be executed via the electric chair on May 17 1995

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Darrell Devier Case

Darrell Gene Devier, convicted of the 1979 kidnapping, rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl, was executed Wednesday in Georgia’s electric chair. Warden A.G. ‘Jerry’ Thomas at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center in Jackson, Ga., pronounced Devier dead at 1:28 p. m.

Witnesses reported Devier, 39, appeared calm as he was led into the death chamber and he declined to make a final statement. However, he accepted a final prayer. ‘I’ll take all I can get when it comes to that,’ he replied when asked if he wished a prayer to be said for him. Witnesses said Devier’s body lurched back in the chair and tensed when the electrical current surged through him. He appeared to relax about halfway through the two-minute process when the current was reduced from 2,000 to 1,000 volts.

Devier was the 20th person executed in Georgia since the state resumed carrying out the death penalty in 1983. It was the second execution in the state in just over one month. Devier was convicted after three trials. Prosecutors said that on Nov. 30, 1979, Devier lay in wait for young Mary Frances Stoner outside her home in Adairsville, northwest Georgia. He lured the girl to his car, then forced her inside, they said. Devier drove the child to a wooded area where he raped her, choked her and crushed her skull with three large rocks, prosecutors said. Some deer hunters found her body the next day.

Vince Stewart, the victim’s uncle, was among a group of family members who waited outside the prison for word that Devier’s death sentence had been carried out. He said the execution took place after ‘waiting far too long.’ ‘We are relieved this is over,’ Stewart said. ‘Not once in the last 15 years did her (Stoner’s) killer ever say he was sorry or try to apologize.’

Devier had been employed by a tree-cutting service and had been working near the youngster’s home for two weeks before the crime. Prosecutors said he had often watched her get on and off a school bus. Co-workers told investigators that Devier had talked about wanting to have sexual relations with the child. Although he was questioned the day following the slaying, Devier at first denied any involvement. But when he was arrested a week later, he confessed that he had raped and killed Stoner, police said.

Devier had initially been considered a prime suspect because his car matched the description of one seen in the neighborhood just prior to the abduction, one that had been parked earlier at a service station. The service station owner told investigators the auto belonged to Devier.

Devier had been arrested on June 3, 1979, for allegedly sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl, but was released due to insuffecient evidence. Investigators cited similarities between that case and the Stoner murder. Devier was tried three times for the killing. His first trial ended in a mistrial in January 1982 after it was revealed that a sequestered juror had discussed the case with a deputy who was a prosecution witness. Devier was found guilty in March 1982 following a second trial and sentenced to death, but that conviction was overturned by the Georgia Supreme Court. The third trial ended in November 1983, with Devier again convicted and sentenced to death

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Nicholas Ingram Executed For J.C. Sawyer Murder

Nicholas Ingram was executed by the State of Georgia for the murder of J.C. Sawyer

According to court documents Nicholas Ingram would break into the home of J.C. Sawyer. During the robbery Ingram would fatally shoot J.C. Sawyer and shoot and injure Mary Sawyer

Nicholas Ingram would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death

Nicholas Ingram would be executed by way of the electric chair on April 7 1995

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Nicholas Ingram Case

Nicholas Lee Ingram, a 31-year-old British-American whose death sentence for a killing here 11 years ago had created an outcry in England, was executed tonight after a one-day delay in which his lawyers went all the way to the United States Supreme Court in an effort to overturn his sentence.

The execution by electric chair took place shortly after 9 P.M. at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center, a 1,400-inmate prison in Jackson, about 40 miles south of Atlanta. Mr. Ingram was pronounced dead at 9:15 P.M.

The execution had been scheduled for Thursday, but Mr. Ingram’s lawyers obtained a one-day stay from Judge Horace T. Ward of Federal District Court here.

Mr. Ingram had already had his head shaved and the offer of the traditional last meal, which he refused, when the stay was granted an hour before he was scheduled to die.

Today, Judge Ward denied Mr. Ingram’s lawyers’ appeal of the sentence, but gave them 72 hours, or until Monday, to appeal his ruling to the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, in Atlanta. The appeals court vacated that stay, and the United States Supreme Court subsequently denied any further appeals.

Mr. Ingram was convicted of killing J. W. Sawyer, 55, after he robbed him and his wife, Mary, of $60 and their pickup truck at their home in suburban Cobb County outside Atlanta.

Testimony in the trial disclosed that Mr. Ingram, who was 19 at the time and also facing a burglary charge, marched the couple at gunpoint out of their house into nearby woods, tied them to a tree and shot them. Mr. Sawyer’s wound was fatal, but Mrs. Sawyer feigned death and was eventually able to escape and go for help.

Mr. Ingram’s mother, Ann, and other relatives solicited and received statements appealing for clemency from 53 members of the British Parliament, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the president of the European Parliament and a number of human-rights groups. Earlier this week, Mrs. Ingram appealed for the intervention of Prime Minister John Major of Britain in a letter she delivered to him while he was visiting Washington.

In a handwritten response, the Prime Minister replied: “I found your letter very moving and I can imagine the profound distress you must be feeling. But I have concluded, with deepest regret, that there are no proper grounds for the British Government to intervene with the State of Georgia.”

In an “open letter to the British people” dated last Sunday from death row, and published in London newspapers, Mr. Ingram thanked those who had appealed on his behalf, adding: ‘If I die, I hope it is not for nothing. I hope people will see that a ritualistic killing in the electric chair solves nothing.”

In seeking to halt the execution, Mr. Ingram’s lawyers argued that they had only recently learned that their client had been heavily drugged and medicated by prison officials before his 1983 trial and therefore was not aware enough of the proceedings to show a contrition that might have influenced jurors not to recommend the death penalty.

They also argued that his lawyer in that trial was not told of a diagnosis that Mr. Ingram had psychiatric problems, a diagnosis that might have altered the trying of the case.

The Georgia Attorney General, Michael Bowers, countered that those issues had been addressed in previous appeals. The courts agreed.

The court appeals came after the Georgia Board of Pardons and Appeals denied the a request for clemency from Mr. Ingram on Thursday. J. Wayne Garner, chairman of the board, announced its decision after an emotional hearing at its Atlanta offices, a conference call with the relatives of Mr. Sawyer, the victim, and a visit to Mr. Ingram.

“Having reviewed and considered its own investigation of the defendant, the nature and circumstances of his offense, his sentence,” the board’s order read, “it is ordered hereby that the clemency application on behalf of Nicholas Lee Ingram requesting commutation of his sentence of death be denied.”

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