America has canceled the deal made with the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks, under which they could have been saved from the death penalty. Mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is also included in this. US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced this. There was a lot of criticism regarding this deal related to saving criminals from death penalty. There was a lot of opposition to this from the Republican Party.
Lloyd Austin removed Susan Escalier, supervisor of Cuba’s Guantanamo War Court, from the case after reaching a pre-trial deal and took full responsibility for the case. “In exercise of my authority, I withdraw all three pre-trial agreements with immediate effect,” he said.
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The culprits were ready to confess their crime.
Plea agreements with the 9/11 perpetrators faced opposition from several Republican lawmakers, including Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who criticized the agreements. This decision of the Defense Secretary has come at a time when three criminals including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed were ready to confess their crime.
Deal was made on abolition of death penalty
Three criminals are lodged in Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba and were sentenced to death. Under the deal, the death penalty for criminals was to be cancelled, which was widely criticized. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is known as the most notorious prisoner at Guantanamo Bay. He is in Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, built to detain suspects of the September 11 attacks.
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It is noteworthy that 3000 people died in the 9/11 attacks. Apart from Khalid Khesh, the plea deal also included the names of Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak bin Attash and Mustafa Ahmed Adam Al Hosawi, whose death sentences were to be cancelled.