South African Supreme Court
said the Olympic and Paralympic gold medalist, Oscar Pistorius, would face
sentencing in June following his conviction for murdering his girlfriend.
A report on Thursday from
Johannesburg said Pistorius would be sentenced between June 13 and June 17.
Pistorius,
known as "Blade Runner" for the carbon fiber prosthetic blades he
used to race, faces a minimum 15-year jail sentence.
The
Supreme Court in December upgraded the 29-year-old Paralympian’s sentence on
appeal to murder from "culpable homicide" South Africa's equivalent
of manslaughter, for which he had received a five-year sentence.
Pistorius
was released from prison and placed under house arrest on Oct. 19, having spent
one day less than a year behind bars for shooting dead model Reeva Steenkamp on
Valentine's Day in 2013.
