Former senior district judge and SMU Associate Professor of Law (Practice) S. Chandra Mohan has called for guidelines on how judges should use their discretion to decide if a capital offender should hang or get a life term. The issue is whether such discretion will lead to inconsistency in sentencing. He raised these points in an article, jointly authored by SMU law student Priscilla Chia, titled “The Death Penalty and the Desirability of Judicial Discretion” in the current issue of the Law Society's Law Gazette. The authors noted that some nations have tried to minimise the prospects of inconsistency by formulating statutory guidelines or guidelines developed by the judiciary.