The first person to be convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for a capital offence under the amended death penalty laws was 30-year-old Singaporean drug trafficker Abdul Haleem bin Abdul Karim on 10 April 2013; he was certified to have been acting as courier and assisted the authorities in disrupting the drug trafficking activities after both his and his accomplice's arrest on 6 May 2010 for trafficking in 72.5 g of pure heroin. In addition to his life sentence, Abdul Haleem, who pleaded guilty to two charges of drug trafficking, was also given the maximum of 24 strokes of the cane. Abdul Haleem's accomplice and friend, 28-year-old Muhammad Ridzuan bin Md Ali, on the other hand, was sentenced to death for drug trafficking and later put to death on 19 May 2017. Similarly, the first executions carried out after the enactment of the death penalty laws were those of drug traffickers Tang Hai Liang and Foong Chee Peng on 18 July 2014.