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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. He then battered them with cutting boards until those shattered. He later confessed the brutal slayings to police.
He pled 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 (ie, 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.