In the end, nothing could soften the horror of what 10-year-old Sara endured. The court called it a “campaign of torture”; her mother called her killers “executioners.”…

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Parents clutched their children on the sidewalk, shaking, as smoke rose from Temple Israel and sirens wailed in every direction. Inside, the doors had held just long…

The screams began where the singing should have been. In seconds, a child’s birthday in Stockton turned from frosting and balloons to bodies on the lawn and…