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Conditions and states banning the death penalty, amid story after story of dna evidence clearing prison terse falsely accused of heinous crimes, the trump administration today moved in the opposite direction. for the first time in 16 years, the federal government of the united states has ordered the execution of five inmates, all convicted of gruesome homicides. evan perez joins me now. this is a policy they had wanted to bring back for a while. >> it was jeff ser who ordered the bureau of prisons to study how to carry out executions. they haven't executed anyone since 2003, now the bureau of ...

Less expensive. >> it's interesting that it's coming at a time where every few days on cnn.com there's somebody that's falsely accused and convicted and leaving prison after 30 years, because dna clears them. that's why so many people are moving against the death penalty. not because they feel back for these five individuals. >> certainly opposition to the death penalty is at an all-time high of 56%. certainly it's because we want solid dna evidence if someone committed heinous crimes, because we have so much more knowledge of these wrongful convictions. >> if you read the profile of these fiv...