{"id":"f6f96f3a-1fe3-4fa6-8340-cbcf4764ad42","url":"https://www.axios.com/2026/10/19/supreme-court-khalid-sheikh-mohammed-911-plea-deal","domain":"axios.com","outlet":{"name":"Axios","country":"US","cred":4,"lean":0,"curated":true},"title":"Supreme Court won't revive accused 9/11 mastermind's plea deal","plainHeadline":"Supreme Court denies revived plea deal for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed","rewrite":{"model":null,"at":null},"summary":["SCOTUS denied Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's bid to reinstate plea deals sparing death penalty.","Defendants still face death penalty and a June 2028 military trial date.","Earlier plea agreements, entered in 2024, were withdrawn by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.","The decision leaves families of victims outraged while legal questions linger.","Mohammed, Walid bin Attash, and Mustafa al-Hawsawi have been held at Guantánamo Bay since 2006."],"topics":["Politics"],"lang":"eng","publishedAt":"2026-10-19T14:49:07.000Z","ingestedAt":"2026-10-19T14:55:04.190Z","story":"https://brief.concise.news/story/ba35c82c-e04e-43d6-9b48-dfd6bce828e9","storyId":"ba35c82c-e04e-43d6-9b48-dfd6bce828e9","image":"https://images.axios.com/QkDlU3AZsCAurPG3-FdOxD9C5_k=/0x67:3000x1754/1366x768/2026/10/19/1792420207655.jpg","author":"Josephine Walker","dek":"The Supreme Court denied on Monday a bid by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the accused mastermind behind the 9/11 terror attacks, to reinstate plea agreements that would have spared him and two co-defendants the death penalty."}