Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón recommended on Thursday that Erik and Lyle Menendez have their current sentences of life without parole be struck down and that they be considered eligible for parole immediately.
“I believe they have paid their debt to society,” Gascón said of the more than 30 years that each has already served, also citing “the things they have done to help the lives of others” while in prison. The brothers were 19 and 21 when they shot and killed their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez, in 1989.
Gascón also said, “We don’t have a universal agreement.
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