Don’t Feel Sorry for the Menendez Brothers
“Killing someone isn’t self-defense unless you believe they’re about to kill you. That’s not the case with Lyle and Erik Menendez,” Alan Abrahamson writes for The Free Press. (Vince Bucci via Getty Images)
A new Netflix documentary has led many people to question whether the Menendez brothers should still be in prison. The answer is simple: Yes.
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By the summer of 1993, when the trial of Lyle and Erik Menendez began, Southern California had seen Rodney King, riots, wildfires, and mudslides. The trial was a different iteration of front-page Los Angeles news, the first in a succession of “Crimes of the Century.” It was O.J. before O.J.
I was the Los Angeles Times staff writer who covered the first o…
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