US EditionAppeals court tosses 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed plea deal
GUANTANAMO, CUBA, JUL 11 – The appeals court overturned a two-year negotiated deal that would have spared Khalid Sheikh Mohammed the death penalty, extending military prosecution challenges after two decades.
- On Friday, a divided federal appellate panel dismissed a plea agreement involving Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged planner of the 2001 al-Qaida attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
- The court ruling came after an appeal initially launched during the Biden administration and carried on into the Trump administration, stemming from Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s revocation of the agreement based on his view that decisions regarding the death penalty should rest with his office.
- The two-year-negotiated agreement, approved a year ago by military prosecutors and Pentagon officials, would have allowed Mohammed and two co-defendants to plead guilty in exchange for life sentences without parole.
- The court panel voted 2-1 that Austin acted within his legal authority and faulted the military judge's earlier ruling, while dissenting Judge Robert Wilkins said the government failed to prove the military judge erred.
- The ruling indicates that the lengthy and difficult military prosecution to hold Khalid Sheikh Mohammed accountable for orchestrating one of the deadliest attacks on the U.S. is far from reaching a swift conclusion.
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