The Coliseum in Rome (probably the scene of more executions than any other surviving building) is illuminated in gold whenever a death sentence is commuted anywhere in the world.

ECONOMIST: Timothy McVeigh��s execution

QUIST-ARCTON: There's the Great Wall of China, Petra in Jordan, Christ the Redeemer - the Statue in Brazil - Machu Picchu in Peru, Chichen Itza in Mexico, the Coliseum in Rome and the Taj Mahal in India.

NPR: West African Drug Trade, War of Words in Sudan