Summary
Anjela Borisova Urumova, 20, received a 23-month prison sentence for falsely accusing Daniel Pierson of attempted rape and kidnapping in Pennsylvania, leading to his wrongful month-long incarceration.
Urumova pled guilty to seven misdemeanors, including filing false reports and fabricating evidence.
Investigators uncovered her lie after finding inconsistencies in surveillance footage. She admitted she targeted Pierson because she had seen him before.
Alongside jail time, she must pay $3,600 in restitution, undergo a mental health evaluation, and serve probation. Prosecutors warned the false claim damaged public trust and harmed real victims.
This kind of stuff boils my blood. Some asshole drags innocent people through some horrible shit for NO REASON.
It would take years to shake that out of you after it was over and done with. Also imagine what family, friends, employers, would say and think or do because of accusations like this.
This is so fucked up.
Could not agree more. Not only that, but the kind of damage this does to people with legitimate claims is hard to calculate…
I think she should have gotten what he would have gotten for punishment.
So slander is as bad as rape?
Such a bad faith line that tries to down play the damage this did. Do better.
Slander that implicates an innocent of a crime should carry the sentence of that crime. His life is forever changed, and is forever linked with that accusation, regardless of his innocence.
Why should someone be sentenced to death for falsely accusing someone of murder?
So murdering someone by falsely getting him the death penalty is somehow better than murder by poisoning?
Whatever the sentence would be for the false accusation, yes.
These situations where people are being convicted for these false accusations don’t come from simple misunderstandings or poor testimony, they come from people purposefully making false accusations and even fabricating evidence. It’s effectively conspiracy to defraud the government and waste resources as well.
If anything I’d say the sentences for these should even be higher than the accusation punishment, since these people are purposefully trying to ruin the life of the accused and abusing the justice system to try and do it for them.
That doesn’t answer my question
Why should the penalty for falsely accusing someone of murder be death?
The penalty for murder isn’t death.
Yes it is, actually.
Depends. On where the murder was committed and the circumstances. For example, murdering 20 + brown people for no reason other than racist hate isn’t punishable by death. Whereas shooting one wealthy person who is responsible for untold deaths, pain, and misery by denying the victims medical most definitely is a death penalty offense.
Why should we have death sentences?
Good question.
You seem to be under the mistaken assumption, that a simple accusation by itself means something, it doesn’t. They don’t prosecute a mistaken eyewitness for false testimony. A simple false claim doesn’t bring the wrath of the system down on someone to the point where they are charged for those false claims, you’ve got to show a complete disregard for reality and the system for things to reach that level.
People lie about shit all the time, especially to police, very few reach the point where they are prosecuted for those lies. The ones that rise to the level where they bother to actually do something about those false claims should receive the same full punishment of those false accusations.
If you knowingly falsely accuse someone of murder with the intention of having them be prosecuted and sentenced for a crime you know they did not commit, then you should receive that same punishment, not a slap on the wrist like a year of prison and some fines.
You still aren’t explaining why this merits the state murdering the accuser.
Ok, you seem to want to actually argue about capitol punishment, not false accusations, derailing the conversation for whatever reason.
If your issue is with the extreme of capitol punishment, then you deal with that separately, because that doesn’t apply for 99.99% of crimes on the books. If there’s no death penalty for the accusation, then whether it should apply to false accusations is irrelevant.
Purposeful, false accusations should result in the same punishment as the accusation, across the board regardless of the accused crime. Don’t falsely accuse an innocent person of something if you aren’t willing to accept the same sentence for your knowingly false accusation, seems pretty simple.
Because if the sentence for the innocent person would have been carried out as the death penalty, then an innocent person would have died. Thankfully, in this case, the justice system worked, but if it hadn’t, the outcome would have been the figurative end of that person’s life. The weight of the accusation, especially a malicious one (which this was), should be born by the accuser, should it be proven false.
The justice system executes innocent people even without false accusations. Why do false accusers deserve this more than, say, judges or prosecutors who oversaw the case of an innocent person sentenced to death?
Because the judges an the prosecutors are (we hope) acting in the best interest of the general public, and want to see justice served. They are not the instigators. That’s like saying that your team lost a game because the referee called the rules as they were written. The judge and the prosecutor are (again, we hope) bystanders and only there to help move justice along.
It shouldn’t be, unless the falsely accused was sentenced to death based purely on the accuser’s lies.
That would be murder, which can carry capital punishment.
If someone tries to get a death sentence for an innocent person, that is attempted murder. If the punishment for attempted murder in your country is the death penalty, the false accuser should be charged with the death penalty.
Note that this is all assuming that it’s proven the accuser did a false claim. The accused being found not guilty is not enough to say that it was a false accusation. Due to the different standards of proof.
If the accused would get the death sentence, the accusation is basically attempted murder. Thats what they should be charged with.
I shall answer, because I am a firm believer in capital punishment.
Death should be given because death should be the punishment for all crime. The white blood cells inside your body agree with me - they are eager to give the death penalty to any criminals infesting your body. There’s no pardons or rehabilitation or anything like that; your white blood cells know that there can be no tolerance for crime.
More blood for the blood god is an acceptable answer, thank you for your honesty 👍
Not what they said and you know it.