{
  "id": 15615792,
  "title": "Supreme Court won't revive accused 9/11 mastermind's plea deal",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/19/supreme-court-wont-revive-accused-9-11-masterminds-plea-deal",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-10-19T14:49:07.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Axios",
    "slug": "axios",
    "url": "https://www.axios.com/2026/10/19/supreme-court-khalid-sheikh-mohammed-911-plea-deal"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Quartz",
        "title": "Supreme Court agreed to hear challenge to federal ban on home distilling",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/19/supreme-court-agreed-to-hear-challenge-to-federal-ban-on-home",
        "published": "2026-10-19T14:00:29.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}