 Twenty-five minutes later, doctors examined the body and pronounced him dead.His body was then turned over to his uncle George Myres who took his body back to his house to prepare for the funeral.Perhaps as a testament to their continued opposition to the death penalty, over one thousand people paraded through the tenement where Goode's body laid, escorting it to the South Burying Ground where it was laid to rest in one of the city's tombs.