“Unraveling the Dark Legacy: Why the Menendez Brothers’ Infamous Crimes Demand a Lifelong Sentence”

Erik and Lyle Menendez have been branded stone cold killers amid their latest appeal for freedom.

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RadarOnline.com can reveal a reporter who covered the brothers’ murder trial insisted they killed their parents, José and Kitty, in cold blood and deserved to be behind bars for the rest of their lives.

After spending over three decades behind bars, the Menendez brothers recently submitted “new evidence” they argued proved their self-defense claims in hopes of being released.

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But a journalist who had a front-row seat to the brothers’ murder trial slammed their claims as he insisted they remain behind bars.

Alan Abrahamson, now a journalism professor at the University of Southern California, covered the televised trial in 1993 for the Los Angeles Times.

At the brothers’ first trial, they were tried separately, resulting in two hung juries.

During their second trial, they were tried together and a jury found them guilty of murdering their parents. The brothers were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Since their conviction, supporters have criticized the judge for not allowing the defense to present alleged evidence of the brother’s claims about enduring years of sexual, emotional and physical abuse by their father.

Their family members have additionally come forward and called for their release, citing new evidence as well as accusations from former Menudo boy band member Roy Rosselló, who claimed he was raped by José as a teenager.

But Abrahamson insisted the sexual abuse claims were not enough to overturn the brothers’ conviction during an interview with TMZ.

The journalist said: “My take is… uh.. pretty direct and pretty simple, the brothers are stone cold killers and they deserve to be in prison for the rest of their lives.

He explained even if the brothers were being abused by their father, their lives were not in “imminent” danger when they ambushed their parents in their Beverly Hills home, firing multiple fatal gunshots at close range.

Abrahamson added: “The parents were sitting in there in the den watching TV. There was no fear whatsoever.”