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 1976, 1,389 convicted murderers have been executed in the United States. (As of October 1, 2014) Of those executed, 15 were female. (The last was Lisa Ann Coleman in Texas on September 14, 2014). Of those executed, 772 (55.6%) were white and 470 (33.8%) were black. Executions were held in 34 different states: 517 (37.2%) were in Texas and 20 (1.4%) were in Indiana. Of those executed: 1,212 (87.3%) were executed by lethal injection, including 748 of the last 758 executions. 158 (11.6%) were executed by electric chair.