I vote for Vlad the ImpalerHere is a depraved tidbit from his life Vlad had a big copper cauldron built and put a lid made of wood with holes in it on top . He put the people in the cauldron and put their heads in the holes and fastened them there then he filled it with water and set a fire under it and let the people cry their eyes out until they were boiled to death . And then he invented frightening , terrible , unheard of tortures . He ordered that women be impaled together with their suckling babies on the same stake . The babies fought for their lives at their mother ' s breasts until they died . Then he had the women ' s breasts cut off and put the babies inside headfirst thus he had them impaled together .