How can the judge not rule that Oscar Pistorius is guilty of murder ? I mean he fired shots through a closed door with the intent of killing?

He was guilty of Culpable Homicide, and my understanding is that would be like manslaughter in this nation. Manslaughter kind of means you know your actions would kill the person but that wasn't the full on intent. My guess is the Judge viewed it as heat of the moment, and not thinking in a right state of mind. The Judge figured he knew shooting through a door could kill, but was probably so scared that he wasn't really intending to kill as much as defend or something. On top of that you aren't from that region so really you don't know the State of mind there. My understanding is that is a high crime region and that break ins are common enough. I don't mean the neighborhood either, I mean the region.

Murder is where you PLAN to kill some one.

If you get in an argument and kill someone in the heat of the movement it is not Murder it is Manslaughter or Second Degree Murder.

But it depends on how the law for that Country or State is written.

Each Country around the world has it's own laws and each state in the United States has it's own laws defining murder.

In California you can be changed with Murder for killing your wife if you catch her in bed with her lover. And in Texas the exact same situation would be classified as Justifiable Homicide.

Get that "shoot to injure" thing out of your head. There is no such concept, except in those old cowboy movies where the guy in the white hat shoots the gun out of the black hat's hand. There is not one person on Earth who carries a firearm for a living who'd ever consider shooting to wound under any circumstance.

That's completely beside the legal point, though. As others have said, he was convicted of the highest level of homicide that could be proven. Whether you, or the judge for that matter, believe he knew he was shooting her rather than an intruder is irrelevant.

No, he fired shots through a closed door.

The prosecutor never established that Pistorius intended to kill his girlfriend.

Get the law right.

He was convicted of criminal negligence, but first degree murder takes intent.

And it is up to the prosecution to PROVE that intent.

You're right, she did not get justice. The judgment was a logical absurdity. He quite clearly intended to kill the person behind the bathroom door and who that person was is irrelevant, as the judge specifically stated.

It was not proven that he committed PREMEDITATED murder of Reeva Steenkamp. There was no evidence that he planned to murder her. However, he was found guilty of CULPABLE homicide...meaning he is responsible for killing someone he killed through a closed door with no knowledge of who they might be and not being reasonable in checking the safety of Reeva...regardless of where he said he thought she was. That was the most that could be proven. We cannot prove what he was thinking. He might have even been thinking terrible things but there is no evidence. Hearsay and opinion and character references prove nothing. There were no witnesses. People who heard things were conflicted. End of story as far as the court is concerned.