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.
Prior to that, juries had a choice between the death penalty and life in prison with a possibility of parole after 40 years. Texas firsts. Texas was the first U.S. state to carry out an execution by lethal injection, executing Charles Brooks on December 7, 1982.