Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday overturned a plea agreement reached earlier this week for the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and two other defendants, reinstating the death penalty as a possible outcome. The decision comes just two days after the military commission at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, announced it had reached plea deals with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two alleged accomplices in the attacks. Letters sent to families of the nearly 3,000 people killed in the al-Qaida attacks stated that the plea agreement stipulated the three would serve life sentences, according…
