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The US Department of Defense is challenging the decision of a military judge to reinstate three 9/11 terrorists’ plea deals that guarantee they would be spared the death penalty.. The Pentagon ...
On March 13, 2006, Brinkema recessed the death-penalty case against Moussaoui because of a breach against the rules on witnesses. Seven FAA officials were previously sent emails by TSA attorney Carla Martin outlining the prosecution's opening statements and providing commentary on government witnesses from the first day of testimony. Martin was ...
Zacarias Moussaoui (Arabic: زكريا موسوي, Zakariyyā Mūsawī; born 30 May 1968) is a French member of al-Qaeda who pleaded guilty in a U.S. federal court to conspiring to kill citizens of the United States as part of the 9/11 attacks.
A federal judge put a plea deal on ice that would have enabled the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks to avoid the death penalty and bring closure to families who have sought justice for over two ...
The alleged 9/11 mastermind was expected to plead guilty as part of an agreement worked out by military prosecutors that would have removed the death penalty as a possibility in his case.
Holder had promised to seek the death penalty for each of the five men and on 4 April he warned that it is an "open question" if such a penalty can be imposed by a military commission if the defendants plead guilty. [30] On May 5, 2012, the trial started. A small number of 9/11 victims' relatives were attending the hearing.
"The US government failed the 9/11 families again. They had the chance to do the right thing and decided not to," said Tom Resta, whose brother, sister-in-law and their unborn child were killed in ...
The charges include 2,973 individual counts of murder—one for each person killed in the 9/11 attacks. [120] The prosecution is seeking the death penalty, which would require the unanimous agreement of the commission judges. [119]