The former Iraqi general known as Chemical Ali has been sentenced to death a second time, the country's official state television reported Tuesday.
Ali Hassan al-Majeed, known as Chemical Ali, received a second death sentence on Tuesday.


Ali Hassan al-Majeed was sentenced this time for his role in suppressing a 1991 Shiite Muslim uprising against his cousin, former dictator Saddam Hussein.

Al-Majeed already faces the gallows for the Anfal campaign in northern Iraq, which killed at least 100,000 Iraqi Kurds.

The Anfal campaign included a 1988 attack with poisonous gas and chemical agents that killed 5,000 people in the village of Halabja, earning al-Majeed his nickname.

His original death sentence for the Anfal campaign came in June 2007. He and other former members of Hussein's regime are in U.S. custody.

The latest sentence was handed down for al-Majeed's role in the slaughter of thousands of Shiite Muslims during the revolt in southern Iraq that followed the 1991 Persian Gulf War.

Estimates of the Shiite death toll range from 20,000 to 100,000.