{"id":11198,"date":"2025-07-11T23:21:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T23:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/appeals-court-tosses-9-11-mastermind-khalid-sheikh-mohammed-plea-deal\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T23:21:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T23:21:39","slug":"appeals-court-tosses-9-11-mastermind-khalid-sheikh-mohammed-plea-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/appeals-court-tosses-9-11-mastermind-khalid-sheikh-mohammed-plea-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeals court tosses 9\/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed plea deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A panel of a federal appeals court on Friday threw out a plea agreement that would have allowed Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, accused of spearheading the 9\/11 attacks, to plead guilty in exchange for escaping the federal death penalty. The deal, negotiated over two years, would have given Mohammed and two co-defendants life without parole&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5397048-appeals-court-reverses-plea-agreement-mohammed\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A panel of a federal appeals court on Friday threw out a plea agreement that would have allowed Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, accused of spearheading the 9\/11 attacks, to plead guilty in exchange for escaping the federal death penalty. The deal, negotiated over two years, would have given Mohammed and two co-defendants life without parole&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}