Plea deal for alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed thrown out by appeals court
A divided federal appeals court on Friday threw out an agreement that would have allowed accused Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to plead guilty in a deal sparing him the risk of execution for al Qaeda’s 2001 attacks. The decision by a panel of the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., undoes an attempt to…