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Ecuador

2026

STATUSAbolitionist

EXECUTIONS 20260

SENTENCES0

GOVERNMENT: presidential republic
CONSTITUTION: August 10, 1998. New constitutional text adopted on October 20, 2008
LEGAL SYSTEM: based on civil law
LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM: unicameral, National Congress (Congreso Nacional)
JUDICIAL SYSTEM: National Court of Justice, Constitutional Court

RELIGIONS

95% Catholics; 5% other

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JANUARY 1, 2020Ecuador
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JANUARY 1, 2019Ecuador
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JANUARY 1, 2018Ecuador
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JANUARY 1, 2017Ecuador
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JANUARY 1, 2016Ecuador
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JANUARY 1, 2015Ecuador
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JANUARY 1, 2014Ecuador
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JANUARY 1, 2013Ecuador
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JANUARY 1, 2012Ecuador
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JANUARY 1, 2011Ecuador
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JANUARY 1, 2010Ecuador
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APRIL 6, 2009Ecuador
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ECUADOR SEEKS RETURN OF FLORIDA DEATH ROW INMATE
Ecuador's government is asking for the return of Nelson Serrano on Florida's death row. He was sentenced to death in 2007 for killing four people in a Polk County factory in 1997.