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.
Bower is nearly 1Â½ years older than William Chappell, who was executed at age 66 in Texas in 2002. Nationally, a 74-year-old prisoner was put to death in Alabama in 2004. Only one other executed prisoner in Texas served more time on death row than Bower, who is 10th in seniority among Texas' 265 condemned inmates. SEE ALSO: The Supreme Court case challenging lethal injections is getting ridiculous