Erik and Lyle Menendez were denied parole by a California board this week after decades in prison for killing their parents in 1989 at their Beverly Hills mansion.

Commissioner Robert Barton reportedly told the youngest Menendez brother, 54, that the 1989 killing of their parents Jose and Kitty Menendez was “devoid of human compassion,” noting the particular brutality of the shotgun murders for which he was convicted alongside brother Lyle Menendez, now 57, according to local KTLA.