Members of New York’s congressional delegation are calling on the Biden administration to put the death penalty back on the table for alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed after revoking a plea deal that would have spared his life.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin recently revoked the plea deal for Mohammed and two accomplices. He took oversight of the military tribunal at Guantanamo amid a backlash over the agreement by prosecutors, which would have sentenced them to life in prison in return for pleading guilty to killing nearly 3,000 people in the attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and United flight 93.