A.C.L.U. Lawsuit Seeks to Prevent Transfer of Former Federally Death-Sentenced Prisoners to “Supermax” Prison | Death Penalty Information Center

A.C.L.U. Lawsuit Seeks to Prevent Transfer of Former Federally Death-Sentenced Prisoners to “Supermax” Prison | Death Penalty Information Center

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and sev­er­al oth­er orga­ni­za­tions rep­re­sent­ing a group of for­mer­ly fed­er­al­ly death-sen­tenced pris­on­ers filed a fed­er­al law­suit on April 16, 2025 seek­ing to pre­vent their trans­fer to the United States Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility in Florence, Colorado, known as ​“ADX.” The trans­fers were threat­ened by the Department of Justice in response to President Donald Trump’s …

Stomach-churning cases, intimidation, threats, this is also part of the judicial profession when dealing with criminal cases. Miklós Surdy was aware of this when he undertook this, as he put it, he acted according to the law in every case, and he was also sure that whatever verdict he made, the Hungarian state was behind him, so he was not afraid of anything. Our host Rudolf Kisléghi-Nagy's guest is former judge Miklós Surdy, who has since chang…