{"id":60383,"date":"2016-07-07T11:39:29","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T15:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=60383"},"modified":"2016-07-07T11:39:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-19T23:20:31","slug":"oscar-blade-runner-pistorius-sentenced-six-years-murdering-girlfriend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/oscar-blade-runner-pistorius-sentenced-six-years-murdering-girlfriend\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar &#8216;Blade Runner&#8217; Pistorius Sentenced to Six Years for Murdering Girlfriend"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_60384\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Pistorius-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"oscar-blade-runner-pistorius-sentenced-six-years-murdering-girlfriend\" title=\"Oscar 'Blade Runner' Pistorius Sentenced to Six Years for Murdering Girlfriend\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60384\" title=\"Oscar 'Blade Runner' Pistorius Sentenced to Six Years for Murdering Girlfriend\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-60384\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Pistorius-1-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"South Africa's Oscar Pistorius competes the men's 400-meter semifinal during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. (Photo: AP) \" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Pistorius-1-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Pistorius-1-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Pistorius-1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-60384\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">South Africa&#8217;s Oscar Pistorius competes the men&#8217;s 400-meter semifinal during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. <em>(Photo: AP<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>What has been called \u201cSouth Africa\u2019s O.J. Simpson trial\u201d has likely come to an end.<\/p>\n<p>Oscar \u201cBlade Runner\u201d Pistorius \u2013 the double-amputee competitive runner who made national headlines by participating in the 2012 Olympic Games \u2013 was sentenced yesterday to six years in prison for murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp at their home in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The six-year sentence raised eyebrows in South Africa and around the world, as a murder conviction normally carries a 15-year minimum sentence. But Judge Thokozile Matilda Masipa\u00a0of the High Court in Pretoria cited \u201cmitigating circumstances\u201d in her decision to cut the standard punishment by more than 50 percent.<\/p>\n<p>One of those mitigating circumstances \u2013 and the fact around which the entire case revolves \u2013 is Pistorius\u2019s claim that he believed his girlfriend was an intruder before he shot her.<\/p>\n<p>Pistorius held throughout the trial that on the night of February 14, 2013, he believed an intruder had climbed into his bathroom through the window. When he heard a noise coming from the bathroom, he grabbed his gun and shot through the closed door four times. Only later did he realize that the person behind the locked door was his girlfriend, Steenkamp.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecution argued that Pistorius knew Steenkamp was in the locked bathroom, and he killed her in the wake of an argument between the couple.<\/p>\n<p>Pistorius was originally convicted in 2014 of culpable homicide \u2013 South Africa\u2019s equivalent to manslaughter \u2013 and was sentenced to five years. Pistorius served the first year before being released to serve the rest of his term under house arrest.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_60385\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Pistorius-2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"oscar-blade-runner-pistorius-sentenced-six-years-murdering-girlfriend\" title=\"Oscar 'Blade Runner' Pistorius Sentenced to Six Years for Murdering Girlfriend\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60385\" title=\"Oscar 'Blade Runner' Pistorius Sentenced to Six Years for Murdering Girlfriend\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-60385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Pistorius-2-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"Pistorius in court. (Photo: CNN)\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Pistorius-2-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Pistorius-2-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Pistorius-2.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-60385\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pistorius in court. (<em>Photo: CNN<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>But prosecutors appealed the ruling to a higher court, citing a legal principle known as <em>dolus eventualis<\/em>, which, when applied to Pistorius\u2019s case, holds the athlete guilty of murder because he should have known that firing through the locked door would kill whoever was inside.<\/p>\n<p>The higher courts agreed. In his opinion, Judge Eric Leach said that \u201cthe identity of [Pistorius\u2019s] victim is irrelevant to his guilt\u201d because \u201cthe accused must have foreseen, and therefore did foresee, that whoever was behind the toilet door might die, but reconciled himself to that event occurring and gambled with that person\u2019s life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite the higher court\u2019s ruling, Judge Masipa\u2019s comments during the sentencing were largely sympathetic to the former Olympian. \u201cHe\u2019s a fallen hero who has lost his career and is ruined financially,\u201d she said. \u201cThe worst is that having taken the life of a fellow human being in the manner that he did, he cannot be at peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The judge also noted that Pistorius had tried repeatedly and unsuccessfully to apologize to Steenkamp\u2019s parents, he was a first-time offender, and he seemed genuinely remorseful and willing to reform. \u201cI am of the view that a long-term imprisonment will not serve justice,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a fallen hero who has lost his career and is ruined financially,\u201d said the judge. \u201cThe worst is that having taken the life of a fellow human being in the manner that he did, he cannot be at peace.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":60384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,25,241,216,240],"tags":[132,607],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-60383","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gunsamerica-authors","8":"category-current-events","9":"category-rapid-fire","10":"category-s-h-blannelberry","11":"category-this-week","12":"tag-buzz","13":"tag-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Oscar &#039;Blade Runner&#039; 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