“I strongly support clemency for Erik and Lyle Menendez, who are currently serving sentences of life without possibility of parole,” Gascón said in a statement.
Erik Menendez and Lyle Menendez at a pretrial hearing in Los Angeles in December 1992.
Lyle Menendez was 21 and Erik Menendez was 18 at the time of the killings.
Attorneys for the brothers argued in clemency requests that they both were sexually abused by their father beginning at a young age.
Those factors and their ages — Lyle Menendez is 56 and Erik Menendez is 53 — make each “an exemplary candidate for clemency,” the attorneys wrote.
Persons:
Lyle, Erik Menendez, George Gascón's, “, Erik, Lyle Menendez, ” Gascón, Gavin Newsom, Newsom, we’re, José Menendez, Kitty Menendez, Vince Bucci, Gascón, — Lyle Menendez, ”
Organizations:
ANGELES, Los Angeles, Democrat, Beverly Hills, Getty, Prosecutors
Locations:
Los, Los Angeles County, California, Beverly, Los Angeles, AFP