Christmas has always been dark for me in prison. It reminds me of everything meaningful that I've missed out on throughout the decades of my incarceration. #HolidaysBehindBars #AllIWantForChristmas #CloseTheRow #EndTheDeathPenalty - ThreadSky

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clemencyforedgar22.bsky.social • 71 days ago

Christmas has always been dark for me in prison. It reminds me of everything meaningful that I've missed out on throughout the decades of my incarceration.
#HolidaysBehindBars
#AllIWantForChristmas
#CloseTheRow
#EndTheDeathPenalty

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clemencyforedgar22.bsky.social•71 days ago

At first, it was dark but it wasn't a pessimistic abyss. It resembled an introversion of my being that gave me a break, then an opportunity to give birth to a new way of connecting with people. I wasn't on death row throughout my early years of incarceration

clemencyforedgar22.bsky.social•71 days ago

I was allowed contact visits, to be outside the cell most of the day and everything else that comes from being in general population. But sadly my journey led me here to federal death row. Where visits are behind the glass and the suffocating isolation

clemencyforedgar22.bsky.social•71 days ago

leaves me hungry for sensitivity, connection, meaning, and a longing for a sense of hope and renewal in my life.
So, I think Christmas this year is a time of contemplation that welcomes elements like sadness. If I could wish for something, anything, in the world for Christmas,

clemencyforedgar22.bsky.social•71 days ago

I wouldn't ask for freedom, health, companionship, even riches, or for my life to be spared. At this point in my life, all I want for Christmas is to hold my children and my mother, one more time, in a heartfelt embrace.
*Edgar Garcia is housed on Federal death row, Indiana

clemencyforedgar22.bsky.social•71 days ago

*All visits for the men on Federal death row are non-contact visits, behind glass.
*If President Biden doesn't commute the death sentences of the men on federal death row to LWOP, Edgar together with 39 other men is at risk of being executed as soon as Trump is in office.

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