US prosecutors have started negotiating a plea deal with Pakistani terrorist and 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four others currently lodged in the Guantánamo Bay detention camp, a move which could result in the commutation of their death sentence to life imprisonment, according to a media report.
The New York Times' report said the plea deal would undoubtedly disappoint, if not enrage, death-penalty advocates among the victims' family members.
The unprecedented terror attack on September 11, 2001 destroyed the twin towers of the iconic World Trade Center (WTC) in New York, killing nearly 3,000 people, including many Indians.
The report said other family members, including those troubled by the role of the US torture in the case and the delays, might see it as a fitting conclusion.