Why the Menendez Brothers Should be Released
In 1996, brothers Joseph Lyle Menendez and Erik Galen Menendez were convicted of the 1989 murders of their parents, Jose and Kitty, in Beverly Hills, California. Before, during, and after their trials (their first concurrent trials ended in hung juries, leading to a joint trial in 1996), much of the public believed that the brothers were spoiled young men who shot their parents to collect their 14-million-dollar inheritance. The prosecution seemed to encourage these rumours and public disdain towards the men. Those who support this theory, back in the 1990s and today, believe that the brothers’ life sentence without parole is what they deserved for a brutal, senseless parricide. However, in the past decade, more and more people have come to realize that it may not be that simple. Some members of the public have been gravitating towards the defence team’s theory, which argues ...
