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(NewsNation) — One seasoned writer is not coy erstwhile asked whether Lyle and Erik Menendez should beryllium granted parole aft the brace has served decades successful situation for sidesplitting their parents successful 1989.
“I deliberation that they are savage, murdering dogs who shotgunned their parents to death, blowing their faces off,” Geraldo Rivera told “NewsNation Now” connected Thursday arsenic Erik Menendez went earlier a California parole sheet successful a bid for imaginable freedom. “They not lone wanted to termination them, they wanted to deface them. It was disgusting.”
Rivera, NewsNation correspondent-at-large, pushed backmost astatine arguments present made successful defence of Erik, 54, and 57-year-old Lyle Menendez, that the brothers person redeemed themselves implicit the years by mentoring chap inmates. The brothers assertion they were abused by their father.
'No sympathy' for Menendez brothers, writer says
“I person perfectly nary sympathy for them. I retrieve the buying spree they went connected aft they committed the execution — laughing, high-fiving each other, buying cars, jewelry, watches, each kinds of stuff,” said Rivera, who covered the lawsuit years ago.
Lyle Menendez was expected to spell earlier California parole officials Friday. It's imaginable sheet members could scope abstracted recommendations for each brother. Gov. Gavin Newsom is expected to person the last accidental if either sibling is recommended for release.
The brothers were convicted of fatally shooting their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez, astatine their Beverly Hills location successful 1989. They became eligible for parole earlier this twelvemonth aft a judge reduced their sentences from beingness successful situation without the anticipation of parole to 50 years to life.
Rivera described the Menendez brothers this way: “Manipulative, evil, selfish, self-serving. Pick your adjective.”
