ABC News, September 9, 2010 by Ariane de Vogue
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Elisabeth Semel, Director of the Death Penalty Clinic at Berkley Law, questions the use of absolute numbers to determine someone’s level of mental retardation. “So many factors can contribute to the reliability or unreliability of a numerical score.” she said. “If you have this absolute as a number you can’t take into account how severely intellectually disabled someone might be.”