JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Paralympic gold medallist Oscar Pistorius has appealed to South Africa's highest court to cut the sentence he got for murdering his girlfriend, legal documents showed on Tuesday.
Pistorious was jailed for six years for shooting dead Reeva Steenkamp - but prosecutors argued that was "shockingly lenient" and an appeals court agreed last month to more than double the term to 15 years.
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