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.
If Staley is executed, he will probably be the first inmate executed while being forcibly medicated for mental incompetency. In a similar case in Arkansas, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit ruled that Charles Singleton could be forcibly medicated to make him sane enough for execution, but Singleton began taking his medication voluntarily several weeks before he was executed in 2004.