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.
States with the most executions, inmates on death row. Texas executed its 500th inmate this week. The state has carried out nearly 40 percent of executions in the United States since 1976, when the Supreme Court allowed capital punishment to resume.