Starting Thursday, Erik and Lyle Menendez will take turns facing a California parole board that will decide whether the brothers should have a chance at freedom after spending more than three decades behind bars for the 1989 killings of their parents in their Beverly Hills home.

A fter nearly 30 years behind bars, Erik Menendez is set to appear before the state parole board on Thursday morning, in a bid for freedom after being convicted for the 1989 murder of his parents, Kitty and Jose Menendez.

Thirty-six years after they gunned down their parents in their Beverly Hills home, Erik and Lyle Menendez are set to appear before a state parole board panel in separate hearings.