Drafting is an important technique in road racing. Exploratorium Senior Scientist Paul Doherty explained, The bicyclist, as he moves through the air, produces a turbulent wake behind himself.
Bower was the 15th inmate executed in the United States this year, and more than half of those executions took place in Texas. On Wednesday, the state of Texas plans to do something it has been trying to do for decades: Execute Lester Bower. Bower, 67, has spent nearly half of his life on death row.
Texas, by far, executes the most people of any state in the US. The Lone Star State has put 469 people to death since capital punishment was reinstated in the US in 1976. The United States, Kyrgyzstan, Iran and Japan are the only countries that execute the mentally retarded.