Prosecutors Recommend Erik and Lyle Menendez Be Resentenced [Video]

Prosecutors have recommended that Lyle and Erik Menendez be officially resentenced for the 1989 murders of their parents.

On Thursday, October 24, 2024, Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón announced plans to recommend the brothers, now in their fifties, be resentenced to 50 years to life for the murders of Kitty and José Menendez. Since the men were 18 and 21 when they admittedly shot their parents to death in their Beverly Hills home they would be “eligible for parole immediately,” in accordance with California law.

Gascón — up for reelection later this year — said at the press conference that the District Attorney’s Office remained divided over the decision, saying it wasn’t “a universal agreement.”

“There are people in the office that strongly believe that the Menendez brothers should stay in prison for the rest of their lives, and they do not believe they were molested,” said Gascón. “I have to tell you that after a very …