Iranian serial killer Kolsoum Akbari, a 58-year-old woman convicted of murdering 11 former husbands over about 20 years by poisoning, was sentenced to 10 death penalties.

Axar.az reports, citing Iran International, born in 1967, Akbari allegedly used sedatives to kill her spouses, with the murders spanning the 1990s to the 2010s.

Arrested in September 2023 for trying to murder her 82-year-old husband, he survived after becoming suspicious she was trying to kill him.

After several trial sessions, a court in Mazandaran in northern Iran sentenced Akbari to 10 death penalties.

Ten families demanded qisas (the eye-for-an-eye punishment, equivalent to the death penalty). The family of one victim agreed to forgo their right to qisas if she pays them blood money.

Akbari also received a 10-year sentence for an attempted murder.

She is the second known female serial killer in Iran, following Mahin Qadiri, who was executed in 2006 for murdering her seven husbands by poisoning them over 17 years.