Ecuador is abolitionist since 1906. Ecuador ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) in 1969 as well as the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (ICCPR-OP2) in 1993.

September 2018: After several Latin American politicians made suggestions that the death penalty should be reinstated, Hon. Soledad Buendía, Member of the National Assembly of Ecuador and PGA Member, made a statement on the inherent conflict between a potential reinstatement of capital punishment and the respect for human rights, and on death penalty’s ineffectiveness for deterring crime.