Kim Kardashian is showing her support for Erik and Lyle Menendez as they inch closer to freedom. After Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón shared his plans to recommend that the 1996 life without parole sentences the brothers received for killing their parents José Menendez and Mary Louise "Kitty" Menendez in 1989 be replaced with a sentence of 50 years to life with possibility for parole, the SKIMS founder expressed her gratitude. "The Menendez brothers were granted a second chance at life and will wake up tomorrow finally eligible for a parole hearing," Kim, a longtime social justice reform advocate, wrote on her Instagram Stories following the Oct.
24 press conference. "Thank you, George Gascón, for revisiting the Menendez brothers' case and righting a significant wrong." Lyle was 21 and Erik was 18 when they fatally shot José and Kitty .
During their 1993 trial—where a jury was ultimately deadlocked leading to a 1995 trial where they were convicted—the brothers alleged their parents had physically, emotionally and sexually abused them for years and their legal team had argued they killed in self-defense. (In the latter trial, the judge excluded much of the evidence relating to the sexual abuse.) The case is the focus of the newest installment of Ryan Murphy 's Netflix series Monsters , which began streaming last month and brought the brothers' story back to public debate decades after their televised trial.
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