Scott Andrew Mink

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Scott Andrew Mink
Mug shot of Scott Andrew Mink
Born	(1963-10-13)October 13, 1963 Dayton, Ohio, U.S.
Died	July 20, 2004(2004-07-20) (aged 40) Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, Lucasville, Ohio, U.S.
Cause of death	Execution by lethal injection
Criminal status	Executed
Parent(s)	Sheila Mink and William G. Mink
Conviction(s)	Aggravated murder
Criminal penalty	Death sentence

Scott Andrew Mink (October 13, 1963 – July 20, 2004) was executed by the State of Ohio. A drug addict and alcoholic, he had been sentenced to die on June 29, 2001, for beating his 79-year-old father and 72-year-old mother to death with a hammer.

The crimes occurred on September 19, 2000, when Mink, angry with his parents because they hid his car keys to prevent him from leaving the house to buy drugs and alcohol, attacked William and Sheila Mink while they slept in their rural Montgomery County home.

Enraged at being thwarted in his quest to get high, Mink beat his sleeping parents with a claw hammer until the head broke. He then battered them with cutting boards until those shattered. Finally, he repeatedly stabbed his parents with kitchen knives and strangled his mother with an electrical cord. Mink then stole his parents' credit cards and sold their belongings to purchase crack cocaine. He later confessed the brutal slayings to police.

He pleaded guilty before a panel of three judges and asked for a death sentence, which the judges handed down. Under Ohio law, all death sentences are automatically reviewed by an appellate court regardless of the inmate's desire to appeal. After his conviction was upheld by the Ohio Supreme Court on direct appeal in April 2004, Mink dropped his efforts to fight his sentence.

Mink spent 1,118 days (i.e., 3 years and 23 days) on death row before being executed by lethal injection – the second-shortest time, aside from Rocky Barton, since Ohio began executing criminals in 1999.

See also[]

• Capital punishment in Ohio
• Capital punishment in the United States
• List of people executed in Ohio

General references[]

• Clark Prosecutor
• 2005 Capital Crimes Report, Ohio Attorney General's Office Archived 23 August 2006 at the Wayback Machine (PDF)

External links[]

• The High Price of Crack from The Malefactor's Register

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