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.
Since the death penalty was reinstated in 1977, about 70 of the state's condemned inmates have died of natural causes. Another 24 killed themselves. (In the last 10 years, the suicide rate on California's death row was 15 times higher than the statewide rate.) About half a dozen condemned inmates died from other causes like drug overdoses and murder.