美国最高法院周一拒绝受理卡利德·谢赫·穆罕默德（Khalid Sheikh Mohammed）的上诉。穆罕默德被指控是2001年9月11日恐怖袭击事件的幕后主谋。他原本希望重新启动一项2024年达成的协议——根据该协议，他可以放弃死刑请求并认罪；但这一协议此前已被前国防部长劳埃德·奥斯汀（Lloyd Austin）撤销。最高法院驳回了穆罕默德及其两名共同被告的上诉；这三人均曾签署过下级法院的认罪协议，而这些协议支持了奥斯汀撤销这些协议的裁决。
The US Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a bid by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the accused mastermind of the September 11, 2001, attacks, to revive a 2024 agreement that would have spared him the death penalty in exchange for a guilty plea - a deal scrapped by former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. The justices turned away appeals by Mohammed and two co-defendants who had also signed plea agreements of a lower court's ruling that upheld Austin's decision to void the deals.
哥伦比亚特区巡回上诉法院也驳回了他们提出的“奥斯汀（时任乔·拜登政府官员）行动过于迟缓”的论点。
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected an argument that Austin, who served under former US president Joe Biden, had acted too late.
最高法院的这一决定标志着对关押在古巴关塔那摩湾的被拘留者的军事审判进程的最新进展。这一审判过程长期以来一直受到法律争议的困扰。今年8月，一名美国空军法官将穆罕默德及其共同被告的审判日期定为2028年6月。
The Supreme Court's action marks the latest milestone in a military prosecution of the detainees held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, that has been beset by two decades of legal gridlock. In August, a US Air Force judge set the trial for Mohammed and his co-defendants for June 2028.
穆罕默德仍是关塔那摩湾拘留设施中最著名的囚犯。该设施由时任美国总统乔治·W·布什在2002年设立，用于关押9·11恐怖袭击事件中的外国恐怖主义嫌疑人（该事件导致近3000人死亡）。穆罕默德被指控策划了劫持客机撞击纽约世贸中心和弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿五角大楼的恐怖袭击。
Mohammed remains the most well-known inmate at the Guantanamo detention facility, which was set up in 2002 by then-US president George W. Bush to house foreign terrorism suspects following the 9/11 attacks, which killed nearly 3,000 people. Mohammed is accused of orchestrating the plot to fly hijacked passenger jetliners into the World Trade Center in New York City and into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia.
穆罕默德及其共同被告穆斯塔法·阿尔-哈瓦维（Mustafa al Hawsawi）和瓦利德·本·阿塔什（Walid bin ‘Atash）曾接受过美国官员提出的认罪协议，但后来这些协议被奥斯汀撤销。共和党议员对此表示强烈批评。两天后，一名军事法官裁定奥斯汀无权撤销这些认罪协议；这一裁决在12月得到了美国军事法庭审查委员会的认可。
Mohammed, co-defendants accepted agreement before deal revokedThe plea agreements for Mohammed and co-defendants Mustafa al Hawsawi and Walid bin 'Atash had been offered and accepted by the US official overseeing the Pentagon's Guantanamo war court, prompting criticism by Republican lawmakers. Austin revoked the deals two days later.A military judge ruled that Austin lacked authority to invalidate the plea deals in a decision that was upheld in December by the US Court of Military Commission Review.
随后，法官安排了关于是否接受认罪协议的听证会。华盛顿特区巡回法院暂停了相关诉讼程序；2025年7月，该法院的一个合议庭以2比1的投票结果决定废除这些认罪协议，认为奥斯汀“无疑拥有退出这些协议的合法权力”。穆罕默德（Mohammed）和阿尔-哈瓦萨维（al Hawsawi）的辩护律师（其中包括美国公民自由联盟的律师）敦促最高法院审理此案。
The judge then scheduled prompt plea hearings. The DC Circuit paused those proceedings, and in July 2025, a panel of that court - in a 2-1 vote - backed the decision to scrap the plea deals, saying that Austin "indisputably had legal authority to withdraw from the agreements." Defense attorneys for Mohammed and al Hawsawi, including lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union, urged the Supreme Court to hear the case.
他们指出，奥斯汀的行为违反了相关的军事法规，并“推迟了这起与9·11事件相关的案件获得最终裁决的最佳时机（该案件已经拖延了25年之久）”。
They said Austin's action violated controlling military law and "prolonged the best chance for finality in the September 11 case in a quarter century."