Oscar Pistorius sentenced to six years in prison for murder of Reeva Steenkamp

Oscar Pistorius was sentenced to six additional years in prison on Wednesday, capping a three-year legal saga that interrogated South Africa’s struggles with race and domestic violence as well as the double-amputee track star’s culpability for shooting his girlfriend through a locked bathroom door.
He had faced a 15-year sentence. Both the prosecution and defence can appeal.
The verdict comes after his initial conviction to manslaughter was changed to murder last December after the prosecution appealed.