Pistorius walks on stumps in court to avoid jail sentence

South Africa: Oscar Pistorius on Wednesday limped in front of Judge Thokozile Masipa who is set to deliver judgement at the end of hearing this week in a South African court after his defense lawyer Barry Roux requested him to take off his his prostheses, as part of his defense teams argument that the double amputee athlete convicted of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp is a vulnerable man who deserves leniency.

Pistorius, who had changed from a suit into athletic clothes to prove the argument, looked unstable at times which drew a breath taking moment from observers in the court room before he then returned to a bench where he sat alone with head bowed.
Prosecutors said Pistorius deliberately killed Steenkamp after an argument.
Chief prosecutor Gerrie Nel, countered the defence argument that Pistorius is a "broken man" because of the grief from killing Steenkamp and the trauma that followed as the world focused on his case, referring to the emotional testimony the victim's father, Barry Steenkamp, gave a day earlier.

"If you ever want to talk about a broken man, we saw a broken man there," Nel said of Barry Steenkamp.

Currently, Pistorius is under house arrest after initially serving one year of a five-year prison sentence for manslaughter for shooting Steenkamp multiple times in 2013.
Last year, an appeal court overruled the sentence, which convicted Pistorius of more serious charge of murder.
Masipa, who first acquitted Pistorius of murder, will decide the new sentence by Friday.
South Africa has a minimum sentence of 15 years in prison for murder, but a judge can reduce that in some circumstances.