While the Kardashians star known as for a reevaluation of the brothers’ case—wherein they had been discovered responsible of first diploma homicide following two jury trials—she didn’t absolve them of their misdeeds.

“The killings are not excusable. I want to make that clear,” the 43-year-old added. “Nor is their behavior before, during or after the crime. But we should not deny who they are today in their 50s.”

Kim additionally defined that Erik and Lyle have made allegations that that they had been “sexually, physically and emotionally abused for years by their parents,” so she believes they did “what they thought at the time was their only way out” in killing the couple.

“I don’t believe that spending their entire natural lives incarcerated was the right punishment for this complex case,” she continued. “Had this crime been committed and trialed today, I believe the outcome would have been dramatically different.”

The essay got here on the identical day as Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón introduced that prosecutors are reviewing the case to find out if the brothers must be resentenced. Gascón’s workplace can be reviewing potential new proof which may help the brothers’ allegation that they had been bodily and sexually abused by their father.