Steve Wade

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Steve Wade (died 22nd December 1956) was one of the United Kingdom's executioners from 1940 to 1955. He died in Doncaster Royal Infirmary from stomach cancer.

He worked as an assistant to Tom and Albert Pierrepoint on 31 occasions and also carried out 28 executions as head executioner. His last assignment was Alec Wilkinson (aged 22 years), whom he and Robert Leslie Stewart hanged at Armley jail, Leeds on 12 August 1955. Wilkinson had been convicted of murdering Clara Farrell, his mother-in-law.