US federal government to resume executions

Capital punishment reprise comes after 16-year moratorium

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The US federal government will resume executing death-row inmates after a 16-year pause, the justice department has announced.

Attorney General William Barr announced that he had directed the Bureau of Prisons to schedule the executions of five inmates, who have been convicted of murders or rapes of children or the elderly.

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