South Africa Supreme Court finds Oscar Pistorius guilty of Reeva Steenkamp's Murder.

South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeals has found Oscar Pistorius guilty of murder, overturning his previous culpable murder conviction over the shooting death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day 2013. 

The decision sets aside a 2014 verdict by a Pretoria court that found Pistorius guilty of culpable homicide.

The verdict that was read by Judge Eric Leach, who was part of a panel of five judges that made the decision, said Judge Thokozile Masipa's judgment against Pistorius was filled with "fundamental errors".
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Leach called the case "a human tragedy of Shakespearean proportions."
A murder conviction carries a minimum sentence of 15 years in South Africa, although Pistorius' lawyers are likely to argue that his physical disability and mental stress should be considered as mitigating circumstances.

In October last year, High Court Judge Thokozile Masipa gave the disgraced athlete a five-year jail sentence for the culpable homicide of Steenkamp, but prosecutors argued he should be convicted of murder for firing four shots through a locked toilet door.
The athlete left jail on parole in October and was meant to serve the rest of his sentence under house arrest.
State prosecutors who lodged the appeal say Pistorius intended to kill Steenkamp and that she fled to a toilet during an argument.