FACTBOX - Who is Chemical Ali?

(Reuters) - An Iraqi court sentenced Saddam Hussein's cousin "Chemical Ali" to death on Tuesday for crushing a Shi'ite revolt after the 1991 Gulf War, Judge Mohammad al-Uraibi said.

Here are some details on Ali Hassan al-Majeed, also known as Chemical Ali.

* A SECOND DEATH SENTENCE:

-- After the overthrow of Saddam Hussein by U.S.-led coalition forces, Majeed was captured in August 2003.

-- Tuesday's judgement is Majeed's second death sentence. Majeed was first sentenced to hang in June 2007 for his role in a military campaign against ethnic Kurds in the 1980s that killed tens of thousands.

-- The military offensives were codenamed Anfal -- Spoils of War -- after the title of the eighth chapter of the Koran and took place from February until late August 1988.

-- Majeed told the court trying him he had ordered Kurdish villages cleared in the "Anfal" campaign, but insisted he was right to do so and had nothing to apologise for.

-- In a separate single attack, not seen as part of Anfal, Majeed reportedly ordered the gassing of 5,000 Kurds in the village of Halabja in March 1988.

-- Iraq's presidency council approved his execution at the end of February 2008 but legal wrangling has so far held up the execution. Last April, he was admitted to a U.S. military hospital in Baghdad.