Kim Kardashian urges California to reconsider Menendez brothers’ life sentences

After renewed interest in case from Netflix series, reality star pleas for leniency for the brothers convicted of murdering their parents in 1989

Law school graduate and criminal justice advocate Kim Kardashian has called on California authorities to reconsider the life sentences handed to Erik and Lyle Menendez, the two brothers convicted in 1996 of murdering their parents seven years earlier.

They are kind, intelligent and honest men," Kardashian wrote in a personal essay submitted to NBC. The reality star and Skims founder said the brothers' actions were not excusable" but that their life sentences without the possibility for parole are questionable.