Pistorius appeal verdict due Thursday

South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal will announce Thursday its verdict on a bid by state prosecutors to have Oscar Pistorius convicted of murder and sent back to jail for shooting dead his girlfriend. The star Paralympic sprinter was found guilty last year of the lesser crime of culpable homicide -- the equivalent to manslaughter -- for killing Reeva Steenkamp in the early hours of Valentine's Day, 2013. Pistorius, who said he mistook Steenkamp for an intruder when he opened fire with his pis