In a move that has sparked debate, President Donald Trump granted a full pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the Silk Road dark web marketplace, who had been serving two life sentences plus 40 years for enabling the illegal trade of drugs and other illicit goods.

One of the executive orders issued by President Donald Trump amid the flurry of actions on his first day in office yesterday aims to reverse the long

In the order signed in the first hours of his return to the White House, Trump said “politicians and judges who oppose capital punishment have defied and subverted the laws of our country.”

Trump falsely claimed that restoring the federal death penalty was necessary in order to deter violent crimes.

The order directs the U.S. attorney general to actively pursue the death penalty in federal cases, particularly for murders of law enforcement officers and crimes committed by people residing in the country illegally,

The executive order calls on the attorney general to “take all appropriate action to seek the overruling of Supreme Court precedents that limit the authority of State and Federal governments to impose capital punishment.

Trump during his first term, the most of any president in modern history. Trump had often suggested on the campaign trail that the death penalty should be imposed for drug and human traffickers