Government officials informed families of the thousands of victims killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, attack that the suspected architect of the attack and his co-defendants will potentially not receive the death penalty.
According to The Hill, the notice to the families comes 11 1/2 years after prosecutors and the defense lawyers began examining the potential resolution to the case.
“The Office of the Chief Prosecutor has been negotiating and is considering entering into pre-trial agreements,” the letter, which was first obtained by The Associated Press, read. The notice said that while no plea deal “has been finalized, and may never be finalized, it is possible that a [pre-trial agreement] in this case would remove the possibility of the death penalty.”
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others were captured between 2002 and 2003 and have been held at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay since 2006. However, the trial has been hindered by repeated delays and legal disputes, including how much testimony should not be admissible due to the torture defendants underwent while in CIA custody early on.
A trial date for the five men has yet to be scheduled, and hearings have been placed on hold as a military board examines whether one of the defendants is competent to go to trial. The hearings are scheduled to resume Sept. 18.
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There goes the last of our country, The United States of America.
These people murdered our citizens and now you want to take the death penalty off the table. This government has their priorities all wrong.
I love my country.
The stinking rotten garbage usurping our entire govt. now all HATE our country! They need to all be brought before a firing squad!!!!!!!
Biden will trade them all for a gallon of Date And Nut Ice Cream!
“Due to torture” what the hell do you think those godless rotten things did?????? What idiotic stupid reasoning!!!!!
A proven historical tactic: bind the buzzards in swine skins and shoot ’em. Send ’em to meet their Maker in pork drag!
And all the while the president with the greatest record in history for accomplishments including peace pacs that had never been done b4 and opening talks with N. Korea and Saudi Arabia that had never been done is being persecuted unrelentingly by our current regime ! Whose the Real enemy here at home? How twisted is the thinking of the courts ? Hang on folks, 1984 arriving soon !