According to the Daily Mail, all of the men’s guilty pleas might result in life sentences rather than the death penalty.

If convicted without the plea agreement, Mohammed, Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin Attash, Ramzi Bin al-Shibh, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi are all anticipated to receive the death sentence.

Al-Qaeda is suspected of hijacking four planes used to carry out the 9/11 attacks across the country.

On 9/11, 2,977 people perished, but hundreds more have died afterwards as a result of breathing in hazardous particles produced by the wreckage.

Terrorism, hijacking aircraft, conspiracy, murder in violation of the law of war, assaulting civilians, attacking civilian objects, willfully causing serious physical damage, and property destruction in violation of the law of war are among the allegations.

Clayton Trivett Jr., the chief prosecutor, asking defence teams if pretrial settlements were conceivable for all five individuals.

According to those participating in the negotiations, the defence drafted a list of prerequisites for a guilty plea that began with the removal of the death sentence as a possibility.

They also stated that the conversation will continue for the next month before being forwarded to National Guard Col. Jeffrey Wood for his signature.

This might finally bring the case, which has been ongoing for two decades and is the longest in the history of the war court, to an end.

If the agreement is made and the five guys are sentenced to life in prison, President Joe Biden’s vow to shutter Guantanamo Bay may be jeopardised.

The facility costs taxpayers millions of dollars each year, and what happens inside has grown more of a closely guarded secret since it was opened 20 years ago.

If life sentences are handed out, family members of those who died on 9/11 or who died later as a result of ingesting poisons may believe they have lost the struggle for justice.

Jim and Patricia Smith, father and daughter, lost their wife and mother on 9/11. She was delivering help in the South Tower when it fell.

Jim and Patricia travelled to Guantanamo in 2017 to attend all five men’s pre-trial hearings.

Patricia, now 22, has agreed to testify against the perpetrators.

She told The Sun in 2021 she wanted them to remain in Guantanamo “at the bare minimum.”

“We have to relive it every single year – and they get no punishment. People should be outraged that this is happening.”