The US Supreme Court on Monday rejected an effort to revive plea agreements for three men accused of planning the September 11, 2001, attacks, including the accused mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. The court declined to review a Pentagon decision to revoke these deals, rebuffing the plotters' attempt to hold the government to the agreements.
The agreements would have spared the accused perpetrators the risk of execution in exchange for guilty pleas and sentences of life in prison without parole. However, the deals, which were reached with military prosecutors, were revoked by the Biden administration and scrapped by former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.
Following the Supreme Court's refusal to reinstate the revoked plea deals, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is now scheduled to stand trial in June 2028 over the attacks.