 When the autopsy was undertaken, it was determined that there had been no suffering on the part of the condemned and he had died instantly.So quickly had he expired, in fact, that he did not have time to drop the bible he had been holding and it was still clutched in his hands after death.Emily Hilda Blake was the last official Canadian execution of the 19th century, executed by Radclive on December 27, 1899 at Brandon, Manitoba.