| By taking capital punishment off the table, federal prosecutors may be able to obtain crucial evidence from Britain needed to bring a case. Attorney General William P. Barr had previously opposed removing death as a possible sentence for El Shafee Elsheikh and Alexanda Kotey, two members of a quartet of British-raised militants implicated in the beheadings of hostages and whose accents led their captives to dub them "The Beatles." A third is in prison in Turkey. The fourth and most notorious member, Mohammed Emwazi — better known as "Jihadi John" — was killed in a U.S. drone strike in 2015. | 
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