The Los Angeles district attorney’s decision to give two convicted murderers, the Menendez brothers, a chance to get out of prison despite life sentences without parole has rattled a Florida counterpart who condemns the brutality of noticed the premeditation that Erik and Lyle Menendez had done to their mother.

On August 20, 1989, the brothers walked into their parents’ Beverly Hills home with shotguns and opened fire while Jose Menendez and Mary “Kitty” Menendez were snacking in front of the TV in their living room at 10:30 p.m.

“I don’t think there’s enough discussion about the murder of Kitty, the mother of the Menendez brothers,” Palm Beach State Attorney Dave Aronberg told Fox News Digital. “There is no credible allegation that she engaged in sexual abuse, and as far as we know… both parents were sitting on the couch, with their backs to the front, watching TV (and) eating ice cream, while the two boys stood behind them came up and killed them. .”

THE MENENDEZ BROTHERS District Attorney ANNOUNCES THE DECISION

Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon, right, shakes hands with members of the Menendez family after discussing the case of brothers Erik and Lyle Menendez during a press conference at the Hall of Justice in Los Angeles on October 24, 2024 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon, who faces a tough re-election in less than two weeks, invited the media and some family members of the Menendez brothers to his announcement Thursday afternoon as he declared that “sentencing is appropriate” and promised to ask. a court to make the brothers immediately eligible for parole.

They have been incarcerated for more than 30 years with life sentences without the possibility of parole for the 1989 double murder.

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Lyle and Erik Menendez, center, sit with attorney Leslie Abramson in Beverly Hills Municipal Court during a hearing, Nov. 26, 1990. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

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After killing their father, whom they accused of child abuse and abuse, and wounding their mother, they had to go outside to get more grenades. They reloaded and came back in to finish her off, in a scene so bloody that a forensic examiner later told Fox News Digital that a detective held up an umbrella to keep blood from dripping from the ceiling.

“I understand why the prosecutor did what he did when it comes to the murder of the father,” Aronberg told Fox News Digital. “It is alleged that the father committed sexual abuse against the boys, and there is new evidence that that may be true.”

However, there is nothing that can soften the murder of their mother, he said.

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Dr. Robert Lawrence of Stockton, California, holds a mannequin illustrating Kitty Menendez’s gunshot wounds during the Menendez brothers’ second murder trial on November 6, 1995. To the right sits another mannequin illustrating Jose Menendez’s wounds. (Boris Yaro/Los Angeles Times)

“There was so much blood that it looked like a mafia attack had been committed, and Kitty didn’t die right away,” he continued. “Basically she was crawling away, trying to save her life, trying to escape. And Lyle Menendez went back to his car, went out and reloaded.”

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While Kitty Menendez’s sister, Joan Andersen VanderMolen, 92, and many other members of the family have publicly supported a reduced sentence for her killers, her brother, Milton Andersen, 90, strongly opposes any leniency.

Joan Andersen VanderMolen, sister of Kitty Menendez, speaks as family members of Erik and Lyle Menendez, the Beverly Hills brothers convicted of murdering their parents, hold a news conference at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles on October 16, 2024 . . (REUTERS/Mike Blake)

“It is Milton Andersen’s continued belief that the sexual assault claims were fabricated, that they were false, and he believes that the correct judgement was handed down by the jury and the correct verdict was handed down,” his attorney, Kathleen Cady, told Fox News Digital.

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What made matters worse was that while Gascon repeatedly sided with VanderMolen, he ignored her brother, Cady said.

“In Florida you have Marsy’s Law, which is in California and other states where you have to listen to the families,” Aronberg said. “You don’t necessarily have to do what the families recommend, but you do have to listen to them.”

Snow covers the grave of Jose and Kitty Menendez on January 10, 1994 in Princeton, New Jersey. (Yvonne Hemsey/Getty Images)

Andersen, through his attorney, said he rejects defense claims of child abuse and agrees with trial prosecutors, who showed the brothers spent $700,000 in expenses after their parents’ deaths.

“Milton Andersen’s continued belief that the sexual assault claims were fabricated and false, and he believes that the jury returned the correct verdict and that the correct verdict was handed down,” Cady told Fox News Digital. “One of the concerns for him, and it really should be for everyone, was that the Menendez brothers tried to get two specific witnesses to lie for them during the trial.”

An undated photo of the Menendez family as it appears on screen during a panel at CrimeCon 2024 in Nashville, Tennessee, on June 2. Brothers Lyle and Erik were convicted of fatally shooting their parents in 1989. (Michael Ruiz/Fox News Digital)

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A court would have to approve the sentence before it became official, and the parole board would then have to approve their release before they could go free.

Andersen’s team is asking the court to dismiss the conviction, noting in court filings that the brothers tried to convince two friends to lie for them at trial.

Erik Menendez, left, and his brother Lyle listen during a pre-trial hearing on December 29, 1992, in Los Angeles, after the two pleaded not guilty in the August 1989 deaths of their wealthy parents, Jose and Mary Louise Menendez of Beverly Hills .California. (Vince Bucci/AFP via Getty Images)

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Because they were under 26 years old at the time of the murders, new sentences of 50 years to life under current California law would make them immediately eligible for a parole hearing.

During his briefing on Thursday, Gascon also rejected an argument that the father’s abuse suggested the brothers could have committed manslaughter instead of murder. He said the premeditation was too much to overcome for that defense.

“They have been in prison for almost 35 years,” he said. “I believe they have paid their debt to society.”

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Gascon is up for re-election in less than two weeks and faces a stiff challenge from independent candidate Nathan Hochman, a former federal prosecutor.

Critics call his involvement in the high-profile case a move of political desperation.

However, there is also some public support for the brothers’ release after a series of recent documentaries drew new attention to their case, including one on FOX Nation, and the defense produced two new pieces of evidence that could corroborate the brothers’ claim that their case father was a child molester.

Fox News’ Mollie Markowitz contributed to this report.