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•West Virginia voters passed a constitutional amendment prohibiting assisted suicide
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West Virginians narrowly approved a ballot question to ban physician-assisted suicide.
The amendment also preserved the state's power to kill convicted criminals.
It was by far the most competitive statewide race in deep-red West Virginia .
Assisted suicide is already illegal in West Virginia , and the death penalty was banned in the 1960s .
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