The prosecutor also demanded death sentences for Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti , Mr. Hussein 's half-brother and former chief of the Mukhabarat , the secret police ; Taha Yassin Ramadan , a former vice president and leader of a militia known as the Popular Army associated with Mr. Hussein 's Baath Party ; and Awad al-Bandar , former chief judge of the Revolutionary Court , which handed down death sentences for 148 residents of Dujail , a town 35 miles north of Baghdad that was at the center of the brutalities described at the trial .