Judge Shaaban el-Shami's verdict, was announced on Saturday in a Cairo court where Morsi was also facing charge of espionage.
As is customary in passing capital punishment, the death sentences on Morsi and more than 100 others will be referred to the country's top Muslim theologian, or mufti, for his non-binding opinion.
The first freely elected president of Egypt, was ousted by the military in July 2013 after days of mass street protests by Egyptians demanding that he be removed because of his divisive policies.
Government crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood movement was triggered by Morsi's overthrown, to which he belongs, in which hundreds of people have died and thousands have been imprisoned.
Morsi's successor in May 2014, the former military chief Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, secured a landslide victory in Egypt's presidential elections.
Morsi was already serving a 20-year term before the Saturday's sentencing, on charges linked to the killing of protesters outside a Cairo presidential palace in December 2012.
On Saturday ahead of the verdict, defendants in both trials were brought into the caged dock.
"We are free revolutionaries. we will continue the march," they chanted.
Morsi was not brought in, but his co-defendant and Brotherhood leader, Mahmud Badie, was present, wearing the red uniform of those convicted to death after a previous sentence.
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