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In this article the author explores the gender‐bias question with respect to the female death penalty debate in the English‐Speaking Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago by presenting a case study of Indravani Pamela Ramjattan. The British Privy Council recently remanded her case to the Trinidad Court of Appeal. A decision in her favor could set a regional precedent which would, for the time, allow women in the English‐Speaking Caribbean to present evidence akin to Battered Spouse Syndrome. Of the almost twenty nations of the English‐Speaking Caribbean, Trinidad and Tobago is the only nation to have any women on death row. Ms. Ramjattan was convicted for the murder of her husband. Her case gained international attention and support from women's groups who speak out on behalf of battered women. Although there is popular support, in general, throughout the Caribbean for the imposition of the death penalty, public sentiment in Trinidad and Tobago regarding the hanging of a female may prove to be very unpopular for the present government of Basedo Panday.