A federal appeals court determined that former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin “indisputably” had the authority to cancel plea agreements made last year with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two other ...

A divided federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. on Friday tossed out an agreement that would have allowed 9/11 terror mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to plead guilty, in another failed effort to ...

A panel of federal appeals court judges on Friday threw out a plea agreement in a 2-1 decision that would have allowed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other co-defendants to plead guilty in ...

Last week, a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., invalidated a plea agreement for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who has been ...

Lloyd Austin, the Secretary of Defence under the Biden administration, attempted to halt the agreement by filing a motion to a military appeals court. The latest picture of accused terrorist Khalid ...

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed sought to avoid the death penalty under the plea deal which a court threw out on Friday ...

But then-Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin repudiated the deal, saying a decision on the death penalty in an attack as grave as Sept. 11 should only be made by the defense secretary.

Agreement would have taken death penalty off table for accused architect of deadliest terrorist attack on US soil; decision prolongs over two decades of legal limbo at Guantanamo ...

Federal judges ruled 2-1 that Defense Secretary Austin had legal authority to cancel the Guantánamo Bay plea deal for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in the 9/11 case.

The deal would have allowed Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to avoid the death penalty in exchange for life without parole.

A federal appeals court has thrown out the plea agreement for the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Nearly 25 years after the attacks on America, the federal ...