IRBIL
The court passed the sentence in absentia on al-Hashemi who is currently in Turkey.
Al-Hashemi and his aide and son-in-law Ahmed Qahtan received last Thursday the second death sentence on charges of instigating the killing of an interior ministry official.
Last September they were sentenced to death for their involvement in the killing of an Iraqi army officer and a lawyer.
Interpol issued last May a worldwide alert for the arrest of the Iraqi vice president.
