(NewsNation) — One veteran journalist is not coy when asked whether Lyle and Erik Menendez should be granted parole after the pair has served decades in prison for killing their parents in 1989.

“I think that they are savage, murdering dogs who shotgunned their parents to death, blowing their faces off,” Geraldo Rivera told “NewsNation Now” on Thursday as Erik Menendez went before a California parole panel in a bid for potential freedom. “They not only wanted to kill them, they wanted to deface them. It was disgusting.”

Rivera, NewsNation correspondent-at-large, pushed back at arguments now made in defense of Erik, 54, and 57-year-old Lyle Menendez, that the brothers have redeemed themselves over the years by mentoring fellow inmates. The brothers claim they were abused by their father.

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