Due to the shotgun killings of their mother and father, Jose and Kitty Menendez, in 1989, Lyle Menendez, 56, and his brother Erik, 53, are incarcerated for life without the possibility of release.
George Gascon, the district attorney for Los Angeles County, suggested on Thursday that the two be resentenced, with a 50-year to life sentence in lieu of their original life sentence.
According to Mr. Gascon, since the brothers were younger than 26 at the time of the killings, they would be immediately eligible for parole.
It follows Mr. Gascon’s announcement that his office would examine fresh material purportedly supporting allegations.
After being sexually, emotionally, and physically abused by their parents for their entire lives, both brothers say they killed them in self-defense.
Their attorneys contend that the brothers might not have been found guilty of first-degree murder and given a life sentence without the possibility of parole if the case had been tried today due to the shifting social perceptions around sexual abuse.
