There is a whole list of people I think the world is better off without:

Torquemada, Alexander VI, Adolf Hitler, Idi Amin, Sadam Hussein and sons, Pol Phot, Kim Il Sung, Josef Stalin, Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacey, George Custer, Lord Cornwallis, Elizabeth Bathory, Banastre Tarleton, Boone Helm, Albert Fish -- to name but a few in no particular order.

I cannot empathize with them because I cannot understand how their minds work. I can understand the James Brothers, Al Capone and others. But there are those who I truly feel are better off dead and no, I cannot raise any empathy for them. I can feel sorry for their families, perhaps maybe, but not for them.

I can feel the most empathy for the families of the girls Bathory bled to death, for the parents of Fish's victims, for the families of those Amin fed to the crocodiles...and for the victims. But not for the perpetrators. Ted Stevens, while I didn't agree with him and I think he was a crook, is not in the same league as, say, Vlad Tepes. The family of Ted Stevens has my sympathy.