Kim Kardashian advocates for imprisoned Menendez brothers to be released: 'They are not monsters'

Kim Kardashian is backing the Menendez brothers in a personal essay shared Thursday with NBC News, writing that “I have spent time with Lyle and Erik; they are not monsters.”

Kim Kardashian is backing the Menendez brothers in a personal essay shared Thursday with NBC News, writing that “I have spent time with Lyle and Erik; they are not monsters.”

Kardashian, the reality TV star and entrepreneur who has used her celebrity platform to advocate for inmates on criminal justice issues, believes Lyle and Erik Menendez were treated unfairly by prosecutors and in the media. The brothers, who were convicted of murdering their parents, Jose and Kitty, in their Beverly Hills, California, home, “were condemned before the trial even began,” she writes.

On Thursday, the Los Angeles County district attorney said that his office would review possible evidence to determine whether the brothers should be resentenced and possibly released, officials said Thursday.

Erik Menendez was 18 and Lyle Menendez was 21 when their parents were fatally shot in 1989. 

“My hope is that Erik and Lyle Menendez’s life sentences are reconsidered,” Kardashian says.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kim-kardashian-menendez-brothers-rcna173750

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