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| | Title = Take This Sabbath Day | |||
| | Series = ] | |||
| | Image = ]<br><sup>] as Joey Lucas ''(foreground)'' and ] as Bartlet ''(background)'' | |||
| | Caption = | |||
| | Season = 1 | |||
| | Episode = 14 | |||
| | Airdate = ]] | |||
| | Production = 225913 | |||
| | Writer = ] (teleplay)<br>] & ] and ] (story) | |||
| | Director = ] | |||
| | Guests = ]<br>]<br>]<br>]<br>]<br>]<br>]<br>]<br>] | |||
| | Episode list = ] | |||
| | Season list = {{Template:Infobox The West Wing season 1 episode list}} | |||
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| "'''Take This Sabbath Day'''" is the 14th episode of '']''. | |||
| ==Plot== | |||
| Bartlet spends the weekend deciding on whether or not to commute the death sentence of a man convicted of drug-related murders. Josh is introduced to Joey (short for Josephine) Lucas (]), who is deaf and trying to manage the campaign of Bill O'Dwyer in California. Toby's Rabbi deliberately gives a sermon that is meant to sway him into persuading the President into commuting the death sentence, and Jed Bartlet's priest comes to help. | |||
| ==Title== | |||
| The title of the episode is a reference to the bible, in which God instructs, "Observe/Safeguard the Sabbath day," in the ], ] 5:1-22. | |||
| ==Trivia== | |||
| {{trivia|date=May 2007}} | |||
| *President Lincoln was the last President to commute a death sentence. | |||
| *In this episode, the US is referenced as one of only five countries that execute people under the age of 18. ], ], ] and ] are the other four. However, following the Supreme Court decision in ] in ], a person who was under 18 at the time they committed their crime cannot be executed. | |||
| *The bible that ] carries is the actor's own. He used the same bible when filming '']''. | |||
| ==Emmy Awards== | |||
| '''Nominated''': | |||
| * '''Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series''' (nominee: ]) | |||
| ==External links== | |||
| * | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| {{WestWing-stub}} | |||
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