Scott Mink was executed by the State of Ohio for the murders of his parents
According to court documents Scott Mink was living with his parents, 79 year old William Mink and 72 year old Sheila Mink. On the night of the murder his parents had hid his car keys so he would not be able to buy drugs or alcohol. Mink would attack his parents with a hammer until it broke, then he attacked them with a board until that too broke before finally stabbing them repeatedly. Mink would then use his parents credit cards and sold their possessions to buy drugs
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When his parents hid the keys to his blue Isuzu Trooper to keep him from going out to buy drugs, Scott Mink snapped. The 36-year-old man got a claw hammer out of his father’s toolbox on the porch and then walked into the bedroom of his sleeping parents.
William and Sheila Mink, 79 and 72, were bludgeoned with the hammer, stabbed with kitchen knives and beaten with cutting boards. Sheila Mink also was strangled, her neck broken with an electric cord. Scott Mink then bought drugs by selling his parents’ possessions, including pictures off the walls of the upstairs duplex where the three lived in the community of Union, just northwest of Dayton. Four days later, Mink turned himself in to police and confessed to killing the couple.
Mink pleaded guilty to their murders and currently sits on death row, scheduled to be executed Tuesday for the September 2000 slayings. Last week, the Ohio Parole Board by a 7-0 vote recommended that Gov. Bob Taft deny clemency. Mink told a court-appointed psychologist: “I deserve it. … I really don’t want to die, but the severity of the crime and the circumstances fit the death penalty for me.” Mink, now 40, declined requests for an interview. Calls seeking comment from his brother and three sisters were not returned.
Mink’s execution — three years from when he was convicted — would be the fastest an Ohio inmate’s death sentence was carried out since the state re-enacted the death penalty in 1981. The previous fastest occurred with Wilford Berry, who was executed in 1999 after being convicted in 1990. Mink also would be the first inmate executed since that time to plead guilty.
Dan Brandt, assistant Montgomery County prosecutor, said Mink deserves the death penalty. “The crimes themselves were especially heinous in nature due to the fact that they were the defendants’ own parents and were brutally attacked while they lay in bed sleeping,” Brandt said. “And there was the ferocious nature of the killings themselves.”
The youngest of five children, Mink graduated from Colonel White High School in Dayton and took a few courses at Sinclair Community College. He never married and lived with his parents most of his life. Tired of their son’s growing crack habit, the Minks had set a 10 p.m. curfew and sometimes hid the keys to his truck. Mink complained that his parents treated him like a child and that his father would only give him $10 or $20 at a time for spending money. Just before they died, the Minks told their son he would have to find a place of his own because they would be moving to a smaller apartment. They never got the chance.
After the attack on his parents, Mink found his keys. He took $7 and his father’s ATM card. Mink withdrew $10 with the ATM card because there was only $12 in the account and bought a fake substance he thought was crack. The next day Mink sold his father’s Ford Escort for $50 to $100 worth of crack. The day after that, he traded his parents’ television for $30 in drugs. He later sold a lounge chair, a clock and pictures off the wall for money to buy drugs. William and Sheila Minks’ bodies were found four days after they were slain when their daughters drove to the apartment to check on them and then called police. Mink turned himself in to Tipp City police, telling them he had done something awful. He later confessed to killing his parents. On Oct. 4, 2000, Mink was indicted on charges of aggravated murder with death penalty specifications. The following April, he announced his intention to waive a jury trial, plead guilty and waive his right to present any evidence on his behalf.
Thomas Martin, a court-appointed psychologist who evaluated Mink, said Mink told him he did not fear death. “I have a firm belief that I still have a chance of getting into heaven; God can forgive,” Mink said.
