Oscar Pistorius Granted Parole: Here's What You Need To Know

Double-amputee Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius was granted parole on Friday the 24th of November 2023, 10 years after shooting his girlfriend through a bathroom door at his home in South Africa in a killing that shocked the country and the athletics world.

In the early morning hours of February 14th, 2013, Oscar Pistorius fired four shots through the bathroom door of his Pretoria home. At his trial, he would claim he believed a burglar had been hiding on the other side of the door. In actuality, there had been no burglar at all. Pistorius had just shot and killed his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.

Pistorius’ first trial, though, did not end with him being convicted of murder. Instead, he was convicted of a lesser charge of culpable homicide (similar to manslaughter) and sentenced to five years in prison.

When Pistorius was released from prison in October 2015 to serve out the rest of his sentence on house arrest, prosecutors were quick to appeal.

The appeals court overturned Pistorius’ previous conviction and found him guilty of murder, sentencing him to six years in prison in July 2016. A year later, however, that sentence was found to be too lenient, and Pistorius’ sentence was increased to 13 years and five months.

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