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How to watch a Dateline special

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NBC’s Dateline will air an episode focusing on the incarcerated brothers. Lyle and Erik Menendez after Netflix released a controversial series about their parents’ 1989 murders and a documentary about their high-profile trial.

The two-hour special will highlight the latest developments in the 1993 trial of Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón. asks for mercy for the brothers. According to NBC, the special will include never-before-aired excerpts from Dateline NBC correspondent Keith Morrison’s 2017 interview with Lyle.

The episode, titled “The Menendez Brothers: A Chance for Freedom,” will also feature an interview with Gascón, a former police officer, discussing why he filed a motion to resentencing.

Last Thursday, Gascón sent letters to the governor of California. Gavin Newsome citing “credible statements” about sexual and physical violence from their father, wealthy music industry executive Jose Menendez, as well as years of “dedication to rehabilitation.”

“It’s not a question of whether they committed a crime, but that they did it,” Gascón told Morrison. “That’s about 35 years of rehabilitation under state law. Can they be released safely?

The show will also feature interviews with Pamela Bozanich, who prosecuted the brothers in 1993, and will detail the recent backlash she has faced. She told Morrison that to protect herself, she bought a shotgun, the same weapon the Menendez brothers used to kill their parents.

Here’s what you need to know about the two-hour episode.

When will the Menendez brothers’ episode of Dateline air?

The two-hour Dateline special, “The Menendez Brothers: A Chance for Freedom,” will air on Friday, November 8th.

How to watch The Menendez Brothers: Chance to Break Free

“The Menendez Brothers: Chance to Break Free” will air on NBC’s Dateline on Friday, November 8th at 9:00 PM ET/8:00 PM CT.

How to watch the documentary “The Menendez Brothers”

The Menendez Brothers documentary is available to stream. broadcast on Netflix.

The film features interviews with Erik and Lyle Menendez, as well as new interviews with their cousin Diane Vander Molen and prosecutor Pamela Bozanich.

How to watch Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story

All nine episodes of the anthology series Monsters: The Story of Lyle and Erik Menendez, created by Ryan Murphy, available for streaming on Netflix.

Contributing: Saman Shafik and Taylor Ardrey.