US Supreme Court snubs bid to revive plea deal for accused 9/11 mastermind

Straits Times19 October 2026, 13:45 UTCUnited States of America

Oct 19 - The US Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a bid by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the accused mastermind of the September 11, 2001, attacks, to revive a 2024 agreement that would have spared him the death penalty in exchange for a guilty plea — a deal scrapped by former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.

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