On the day the grueling cross-examination process wrapped up, the Oscar Pistorius trial in South Africa's Pretoria court Tuesday hit another watermark of uncomfortable tension, as the paralympian read aloud a Valentine’s Day card girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp gave him hours before he would fatally gun her down.

"Roses are red, violets are blue,” Pistorius read from the card, “I think today is a good day to tell you that I love you.”

The eerie display came after prosecutor Gerrie Nel concluded his dogged cross-examination of