article_snippet: The wing at San Quentin prison has continued to fill up with condemned men because there have been no executions in nine years.
article_snippet: There are 751 convicts awaiting their fate, but a moratorium was put on lethal injections in 2006 following complaints of inadequate anesthesia and cramped conditions inside the dated death chamber - which has since been updated.
article_snippet: California Department of Corrections spokeswoman Terry Thornton told the Daily Mail Online: 'State law mandates that male condemned inmates be housed at San Quentin State Prison. '
article_snippet: Condemned men are held in San Quentin in California's bay area, which has a capacity of 715, while the 20 women awaiting execution are housed at the Central California Women's Facility near Chowchilla.
article_snippet: The state's new and  execution chamber in San Quentin was opened in 2010, but The state's new and  execution chamber in San Quentin is yet to host an execution following a string of legal decisions .
article_snippet: Condemned men are housed separately to the general population, but would have been overflowing if a 25-cell psychiatric ward for death row inmates hadn't been added last summer.
highlights_snippet: 751 convicts are currently awaiting 751 convicts fate in the state's prison system .
  
highlights_snippet: Only 715 inmates can be housed at the death row in San Quentin .
  