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 judgment 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 apologize 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.

* RISE TO POWER:

-- Like others in Saddam's inner circle, Majeed owed his rise to family ties to the Iraqi strongman, who came to trust few beyond his Sunni Arab clan based around Tikrit, north of Baghdad.

-- He played a key role in the purge of the Baath party in 1979, when Saddam, formally installed as head of state, sat on the stage of an auditorium and watched "traitors" being led away to their deaths after their names were called out.

* GULF WAR:

-- In August 1990, after the invasion of Kuwait, Saddam had appointed him military governor of what was deemed to be Iraq's "19th province" but replaced him three months later for fear his brutal reputation was strengthening the hand of Kuwait's allies.

-- When a U.S.-led coalition expelled Iraqi forces from the emirate in 1991, Saddam appointed Majeed interior minister to help stamp out the Shi'ite rebellion sweeping southern Iraq.