West Virginia Voters Passed a Constitutional Amendment Prohibiting Assisted Suicide

West Virginians narrowly approved a ballot question to constitutionally prohibit people from seeking medical help in ending their own lives—while preserving the state's power to kill convicted criminals.

The race was not called until more than a week after Election Day, with 50.4 percent of the vote in favor of the constitutional amendment, which bans "the practice of medically assisted suicide, euthanasia, or mercy killing of a person."