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.

The hearings will be held on consecutive days, with separate deliberations for each brother. Almost 36 years to the day after he and his brother murdered their parents, Erik Menendez will go before a parole board on Thursday for the first time. His brother, Lyle, will get his chance on Friday.

Erik and Lyle Menendez will get their first-ever parole hearings on Thursday and Friday, after spending more than three decades in prison for their parents' murders. Here's what to expect.

The U.S. and the E.U. reach a tariff agreement on pharmaceuticals, lumber and semiconductors. The GOP-controlled Texas House passes new congressional maps. And parole hearings are set for Erik and Lyle Menendez, the brothers convicted of killing their parents in 1989.

Lyle and Erik Menendez are heading to their long-awaited parole hearing on Thursday, marking a huge step forward in their push to be released after 35 years behind bars.

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.

Erik and Lyle Menendez will appear at "suitability" hearings in a bid to convince parole officials they don't pose an unreasonable risk to society.

Erik and Lyle Menendez face separate California parole board hearings this week after spending decades in prison for the 1989 killings of their parents in Beverly Hills.

While Lyle and Erik Menendez’s push for freedom has picked up steam in the past few months, the case dates back to nearly four decades, beginning with a gruesome crime scene where their parents, Jose and Kitty, were shot and killed in their Beverly Hills mansion.