On 14 January 2015, a landmark ruling was made by the Court of Appeal in the prosecution's appeal against the re-sentencing case of one former death row inmate Kho Jabing, who was re-sentenced to life imprisonment and 24 strokes of the cane for being guilty of murdering 40-year-old Chinese PRC citizen Cao Ruyin during a robbery under Section 300(c) of the Penal Code of Singapore. The landmark judgement of the rare five-judge Court of Appeal, in which the Court of Appeal, by a majority decision of 3–2, overturned Kho's life sentence and sentenced him to death a second time, had set the main guiding principles for all judges in Singapore to decide if the death penalty is appropriate for those murder cases committed with no intention to kill while exercising their discretion to impose either a life term or death for offenders responsible for such.