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.
In addition to State executions, three Federal executions have been carried out at San Quentin. Samuel Richard Shockley and Miran Edgar Thompson had been incarcerated at Alcatraz Island federal penitentiary and were executed on December 3, 1948, for the murder of two prison guards during the Battle of Alcatraz.