Oscar Pistorius will be released on parole in January, prison authorities said Friday, nearly 11 years after the former South African Paralympic sprinter murdered his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. <\/p>\n
Pistorius shot Steenkamp four times through the bathroom door of his house in 2013, denying that he killed her in a fit of anger and saying instead he had mistaken her for an intruder. He was originally sentenced to 13 years and five months imprisonment. <\/p>\n
The athlete \u2013 known as the \u201cBlade Runner\u201d for his carbon-fiber prosthetic legs and once feted as an inspirational figure after competing in the 2012 Olympics \u2013 became the center of a trial that was followed around the world. <\/p>\n
During the trial, Pistorius pleaded not guilty to one charge of murder and a firearms charge associated with Steenkamp\u2019s killing. <\/p>\n
Prosecutors argued her killing was deliberate and that the shooting happened after the couple had an argument. <\/p>\n
He frequently broke down in court and his past behavior was closely scrutinized. <\/p>\n
Pistorius was convicted of manslaughter in 2014 and sentenced to five years. But a higher court\u00a0overturned the conviction and changed it to murder\u00a0a year later, increasing his sentence to six years in prison. <\/p>\n
The ruling was appealed by prosecutors who claimed the sentence was too lenient. Pistorius\u2019 sentence was\u00a0increased to 13 years and five months\u00a0by South Africa\u2019s Supreme Court of Appeal in 2017. <\/p>\n
Nimi Princewill and\u00a0Niamh Kennedy contributed to this report.<\/em> <\/p>\n This is a breaking news story and will be updated.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n Oscar Pistorius will be released on parole in January, prison authorities said Friday, nearly 11 years after the former South African Paralympic sprinter murdered his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Pistorius shot Steenkamp four times through the bathroom door of his house in 2013, denying that he killed her in a fit of anger and saying instead <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12038,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}