California's parole board has denied Erik Menendez his release. He was convicted in the 1989 shotgun slaying of his parents in Beverly Hills with brother Lyle.

Erik Menendez has been denied parole by panel of California commissioners. During his hearing Thursday, he offered his most detailed account in years of how he was raised and why he made the choices he did — both at the time of his parents' killing and during his decades in prison.