Supreme Court agreed to hear challenge to federal ban on home distilling

The Supreme Court has denied a bid by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind behind the 9/11 terror attacks, to reinstate plea agreements that would have spared him and two co-defendants the death penalty. This decision keeps the death penalty on the table for the accused 9/11 plotters as they approach their June 2028 military trial date.

The denial of the appeal was met with outrage from some 9/11 victims' families, who had previously criticized the government's withdrawal of the plea agreements in February 2024. Mohammed and his co-defendants, Walid bin Attash and Mustafa al-Hawsawi, were first arraigned in 2008 and have been held at the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, since 2006. The new tentative trial date for the 9/11 attacks is set for June 5, 2028.

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