Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday “effectively put the death penalty back on the table” in the w ar court case against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, the New York Times reports. The Times’ Carol Rosenberg, reporting from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, says the Pentagon “announced the decision with the release of a memorandum relieving the senior official at the Defense Department responsible for military commissions of her oversight” in the case against Mohammed “and two alleged accomplices … for the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in New Yo…
