Baghdad - The Iraqi Supreme Criminal Court on Tuesday sentenced Ali Hassan al-Majid, better known as Chemical Ali, to death for the brutal crushing of the a Shiite uprising that followed the expulsion of Iraqi forces from Kuwait.

Al-Majid, a cousin of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, served as Iraq's intelligence chief and defence minister at the time.

This was the second death sentence on al-Majid following one in June for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity for his part in the 1988 Anfal campaign, which killed 180,000 Kurdish civilians and guerrillas.

Abdul Ghani Abdul Ghafour, a former Baath Party official, also received a death sentence on Tuesday along with al-Majid.

Life sentences were handed down against Ibrahim Abdelsattar Mohammed, Iyad Fatieh al-Rawi, a former chief of staff and a Republican Guard commander, Hussein Rashid al-Tikriti, a former assistant chief of staff and Saber Abdul-Aziz al-Dori, the former chief of military intelligence.

Al-Majid, who was listed as the fifth most-wanted man in Iraq after the US invasion, was captured in August 2003. (dpa)