LOS ANGELES — Lyle Menendez was denied parole Friday after serving decades in prison for murdering his parents with his older brother in 1989.

His brother Erik Menendez was denied parole Thursday.

The brothers became eligible for parole after a judge reduced their sentences in May from life without parole to 50 years to life.

The parole hearings marked the closest they've been to winning freedom from prison since their convictions almost 30 years ago for murdering their parents.

The brothers were sentenced to life in prison in 1996 for fatally shooting their father, Jose Menendez, and mother, Kitty Menendez, in their Beverly Hills mansion in 1989. While defense attorneys argued that the brothers acted out of self-defense after years of sexual abuse by their father, prosecutors said the

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