(Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) Alex Wong via Getty ImagesWASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday overrode a plea agreement reached earlier this week for the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and two other defendants, reinstating them as death-penalty cases. The move comes two days after the military commission at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, announced that the official appointed to oversee the war court, retired Brig. AdvertisementThe U.S. military commission overseeing the cases of five defendants in the Sept. 11 attacks has been stuck in pre-trial hearings and other preliminary court action since 2008. A fourth Sept. 11 defendant at Guantanamo had been still negotiating on a possible plea agreement. The military commission last year ruled the fifth defendant mentally unfit to stand trial.

Source: Huffington Post August 03, 2024 07:16 UTC