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US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has revoked a pre-trial agreement reached with men accused of plotting the 11 September terrorist attacks.

In a memo on Friday, Mr Austin also said he was revoking the authority of the officer overseeing the court who signed the agreement on Wednesday.

The original deal, which would reportedly have spared the alleged attackers the death penalty, was criticised by some families of victims.

The memo named five defendants including the alleged ringleader of the plot, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. The original deal named three men.

"I have determined that, in light of the significance of the decision to enter into pre-trial agreements with the accused… responsibly for such a decision should rest with me as the superior authority," Mr Austin wrote to Brig Gen Susan Escallier.

"I hereby withdraw your authority. Effective immediately, in the exercise of my authority, I hereby withdraw from the three pre-trial agreements."

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[–] CoconutPetesPaella@lemmy.one 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Anyone know what method of death penalty they would receive? Lethal injection? Hanging?

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Feds do lethal injection, I believe.

[–] CoconutPetesPaella@lemmy.one 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Is this federal? I thought it was military

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

That's what changed: Austin changed it from military to federal in order to put murdering them back on the table.

[–] halykthered@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Catapulted into the sun, I believe.

[–] Jesusaurus@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

It's easier to catapult into Jupiter

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

It's easier to catapult out of the solar system than into the sun.

[–] morphballganon@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Is it?

Couldn't we just shove them out of a plane flying over Idaho or something?

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I think that might qualify as cool and unusual punishment.

[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's even easier to catapult into Venus.

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

It's actually surprisingly really difficult to hit the Sun. Especially considering literally EVERYTHING in the Solar System is attracted to it.