Oct 19, 2026 · 4 min · 8 segments
- 9/11 Plea Deal Rejected: The U.S. Supreme Court has blocked a plea deal for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the accused mastermind of the September eleventh attacks. The deal would have traded a guilty plea…
The Supreme Court has rejected an effort to revive a plea deal for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
He is accused of developing and directing the plot to crash hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11th, 2001.
The agreement would have spared him the death penalty in exchange for his guilty plea and life in prison without parole.
Military prosecutors and the Pentagon's senior official for Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, had initially approved the plea agreement, but then Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin threw it out in 2024, saying only the defense secretary should decide on the death penalty in an attack as grave as September 11th.
The Supreme Court has rejected an effort to revive a plea deal for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
He is accused of developing and directing the plot to crash hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11th, 2001.
The agreement would have spared him the death penalty in exchange for his guilty plea and life in prison without parole.
Military prosecutors and the Pentagon's senior official for Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, had initially approved the plea agreement, but then Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin threw it out in 2024, saying only the defense secretary should decide on the death penalty in an attack as grave as September 11th.
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