In January 2013, the law was amended to make the death penalty no longer mandatory for certain capital offences. The judges in Singapore were given a discretion to impose a sentence of life imprisonment with mandatory caning for offenders who commit murder but had no intention to kill, which came under Sections 300(b), 300(c) and 300(d) of the Penal Code (the death penalty remains mandatory only for murder offences committed with intention to kill, which came under section 300(a) of the Penal Code). This discretion is similarly applied to those convicted of drug trafficking, provided that they only act as couriers, suffering from impaired mental responsibility (e.g. depression), substantively assisting the authorities in tackling drug trafficking activities or any other conditions. For drug traffickers who were not being condemned to death but to life-long incarceration with caning, they should receive not less than 15 strokes of the cane. Despite this discretion, a sentence of life imprisonment is the mandatory minimum penalty one will face for capital murder or drug trafficking offences in these circumstances.