Menendez brothers convicted of murder in parents’ deaths 20 years ago today (Mar 20 1996)


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(Wednesday, March 20, 1996) — A jury in Los Angeles convicted Erik and Lyle Menendez today of first-degree murder in the 1989 shotgun slayings of their wealthy parents.

They were later sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.