The justices rejected a request from Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and two others accused of plotting the Sept. 11 attacks, clearing the way for a potential death penalty trial.

Agreement would have spared Mohammed risk of execution in exchange for guilty plea and life in prisonThe supreme court on Monday rejected an effort to revive a plea deal for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the accused mastermind of the attacks on 11 September 2001.The agreement would have spared Mohammed the risk of execution in exchange for his guilty plea and a sentence of life in prison without parole. Continue reading...

The government is now 0-5 in its efforts to admit the so-called clean team confessions to the capital cases at Guantánamo Bay.

Prosecutors have long considered the defendants’ admissions during interrogations in 2007 to be their best evidence.