Rosie O'Donnell is calling for Lyle & Erik Menéndez to be free -- the brothers were convicted of murdering their parents and sentenced to life imprisonment in one of the 1st major true-crime dramas to capture the nation back in the early 90s (via toofab)
"f Erik, at 17 or 18, when he told [Lyle] that the father had been doing this to him for many years," she argued,"if it had been a girl; that his sister was being raped by the father; that would've been much easier for our culture in the '90s to understand why the older brother would've acted in the way that he did."
She also made sure to note that"nobody is condoning the violence or the murder of their parents," but that there should be consideration both for the"extenuating circumstances" that were disallowed in their convicting trial, and for the fact they've already spent 30 years behind bars., that there is new evidence that should be enough to overturn their life sentences.
The case is also set to be the subject of Ryan Murphy's latest season of"Monster" on Netflix. The streamer also has"exclusive access to Lyle and Erik Menéndez for a forthcoming documentary feature," which will likely include these latest developments.