One of GRRM greatest talents is making people feel sympathy for characters who have done horrible things and have horrible personalities as we see with Theon and Cersei in Dance. Do you think he did something similar with Joffrey death since that was what he was aiming for? On the one hand Joffrey is still a teenager suffering a horrible death but on the other hand in that same chapter and the one before it we get reminded of what a twisted monster Joffrey is and he was clearly never going to get better plus the Tyrells had justified reasons for wanting him dead and his death helps Sansa escape in the confusion.
Ser Meryn pried the king's mouth open to jam a spoon down his throat. As he did, the boy's eyes met Tyrion's. He has Jaime's eyes. Only he had never seen Jaime look so scared. The boy's only thirteen. Joffrey was making a dry clacking noise, trying to speak. His eyes bulged white with terror, and he lifted a hand... reaching for his uncle, or pointing... Is he begging my forgiveness, or does he think I can save him? "Noooo," Cersei wailed, "Father help him, someone help him, my son, my son..."
Tyrion VIII, ASoS
Yes, Joffrey's a murderer, a tyrant, and an abuser. Yes, Joffrey's death solves several problems for various characters. But that's still a thirteen-year-old boy, betrayed and murdered, in pain and fear, dying on the floor while his distraught mother cries for her own father to save her son. Terrible as Joffrey is, he's a human being with feelings and someone who loves him.
The readers also know, of course, that Joffrey grew up in an abusive family. His father ignored him at best and hit him at worst; his mother indulged him but provided no meaningful discipline; between the two, nobody provided Joffrey with education or guidance, leaving Joffrey to model himself after his parents' examples of raging misogyny, domestic abuse, and outright tyranny. Whatever underlying mental health problems Joffrey had that Westeros couldn't detect or treat, this could not have helped. There is a sense in which Joffrey was a victim too - as usual for the series, it's an explanation, not an excuse.
GRRM is doing this deliberately, and does this repeatedly, to make the point that terrible people are still people. This is because 1) it 'demystifies' human evil, attributing it not to evil magic or anything like that, but to human minds, human hearts, and human ways of living, and 2) reminds the readers that terrible people still aren't the (explicitly supernatural) Others.
Saving humanity means saving Joffreys. ASoIaF does not look away from that fact, and it's still out there arguing that it's worth it.
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