Oscar Pistorious

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) —  wants to take his case to South Africa’s Constitutional Court, challenging an appeals court that convicted him of murdering girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, the Olympian’s lawyer said Tuesday. Attorney Barry Roux also requested bail for the double-amputee runner in a court hearing in Pretoria, saying stricter conditions including electronic monitoring would […]

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A South African appeals court on Thursday convicted Oscar Pistorius of murder, overturning a lower court’s conviction of the double-amputee Olympian on the lesser charge of manslaughter for shooting girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp to death in 2013. Justice Lorimer Eric Leach of the Supreme Court of Appeal delivered the ruling by the five-judge […]

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Oscar Pistorius, the double-amputee Olympic runner who shot his girlfriend to death on Valentine’s Day 2013, can leave prison and move to house arrest next week, South Africa’s Department of Corrections said Thursday. A parole board at the prison where Pistorius has served nearly a year of his five-year sentence for manslaughter […]

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — After being locked up for 10 months for killing his girlfriend, double-amputee runner Oscar Pistorius is scheduled to be released from prison and go into house arrest on Friday. What his steps after that will be are less clear. The first amputee to run at the Olympics might race again. Or he […]

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Prison officials have recommended that Oscar Pistorius, who killed his girlfriend, be released from prison Aug. 21 for good behavior after serving just 10 months and be moved to house arrest, the head of correctional services said on Monday. The news emerged the same day the country’s Supreme Court of Appeal announced […]

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The mother of the South African woman killed by athlete Oscar Pistorius says she does not care about an upcoming appeal. Pistorius’ lawyers will challenge a judge’s decision to allow prosecutors to appeal later this week the runner’s negligent killing conviction. June Steenkamp, the mother of Reeva Steenkamp, who was killed by […]

STELLENBOSCH, South Africa (AP) — Oscar Pistorius’ case will return to court next month after his lawyers said Tuesday they will challenge a judge’s decision to allow prosecutors to appeal the Olympic runner’s negligent killing conviction. Prosecutors want Pistorius convicted of the more serious crime of murder for shooting girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013 and […]

RETORIA, South Africa (AP) — A South African prosecutor on Tuesday argued in court for an appeal in the case against Oscar Pistorius, who was acquitted of murder for killing girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Prosecutor Gerrie Nel outlined his objections to the culpable homicide verdict and sentence against the Olympic runner, saying Judge Thokozile Masipa erred […]

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Oscar Pistorius was sentenced Tuesday to five years in prison for killing Reeva Steenkamp by a South African judge who cited the “gross negligence” the runner showed when he shot his girlfriend multiple times through a toilet cubicle door in his home. However, legal experts said the section of law […]