Prosecutors have issued a new deadline — Sept. 18 — for four detainees at the American military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to show their willingness to plead guilty to plotting the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and receive a maximum punishment of life in prison.
The fifth defendant in the case has been found incompetent to stand trial and is likely to be removed from the case.
Without a challenge, the judge is expected to sever him from the case when hearings resume next week after a 22-month hiatus.
They describe the deadline as driven by the scheduled Oct. 7 departure of the current overseer of the case, Jeffrey D. Wood.
In March 2022, Mr. Wood authorized prosecutors to pursue guilty pleas that would spare the defendants a capital trial to resolve the long-running case.
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Guantánamo Bay, Cuba