{"id":36199,"date":"2018-04-10T03:23:37","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T01:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/04\/10\/end-of-the-road-oscar-pistorius-loses-appeal-over-jail-term-in-final-legal-defeat\/"},"modified":"2018-04-10T03:23:37","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T01:23:37","slug":"end-of-the-road-oscar-pistorius-loses-appeal-over-jail-term-in-final-legal-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=36199","title":{"rendered":"&#039;End of the road&#039;: Oscar Pistorius loses appeal over jail term in final legal defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s highest court rejects the former Paralympian\u2019s bid to have his jail term for killing Reeva Steenkamp reduced South Africa\u2019s highest court has rejected Oscar Pistorius\u2019s request to appeal against his 13-year jail term, ending the long legal battle over his conviction for killing his girlfriend in 2013.The former Paralympic athlete, 31, had asked the constitutional court to review the jail term, which was increased to 13 years in November. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/apr\/10\/end-of-the-road-oscar-pistorius-loses-appeal-over-jail-term-in-final-legal-defeat\" target=\"_blank\">&#039;End of the road&#039;: Oscar Pistorius loses appeal over jail term in final legal defeat<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s highest court rejects the former Paralympian\u2019s bid to have his jail term for killing Reeva Steenkamp reduced South Africa\u2019s highest court has rejected Oscar Pistorius\u2019s request to appeal against his 13-year jail term, ending the long legal battle over his conviction for killing his girlfriend in 2013.The former [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}