Politicians in California are demanding millions in funding to add more cells to the state 's death row - because it has run out of room . The wing at San Quentin prison has continued to fill up with condemned men because there have been no executions in nine years . 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 . Overcrowding : Governor Jerry Brown is demanding $ 3.2million in funding because California 's death row at San Quentin prison ( pictured ) has run out of room - even though there have been no executions in nine years . Yet more than 160 people have been sentenced to die since . The delay was lengthened in 2014 when a federal judge ruled that the capital appeals process in the state is so slow that it constituted cruel and unusual punishment - because executions were so unlikely and random . But with plans to appeal the ruling , Governor Jerry Brown is asking the state legislature for $ 3.2million so he can add 100 cells , The LA Times reported . 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 . 'This project is to ensure that San Quentin will have enough beds to accommodate a growing condemned inmate population . ' The demand for more space comes despite the dramatic fall in the Californian prison population . Low-level drug offenders and thieves are being released because of new legislation introduced last year - meaning more cells are being made available . 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 . Update : The state 's new and execution chamber in San Quentin was opened in 2010 , but it is yet to host an execution following a string of legal decisions . The men are housed separately to the general population , but would have been overflowing if a 25-cell psychiatric ward for death row inmates had n't been added last summer . A budget proposal seen by The Times predicts 20 new death row inmates arrive every year . The funding would go towards the revamping of a block inside the main prison - beefing up security and updating the showers so inmates can be cuffed while they wash . The last person to be executed in California was frail 76-year-old Clarence Ray Allen in January 2006 . He was legally blind , used a wheelchair and suffered from diabetes and chronic heart disease , had been sentenced to death for ordering the murders of three people in 1980 while serving a life sentence for murder in California 's Folsom Prison . Two guards assisted a frail Allen , wearing an Indian headband , from a wheelchair into San Quentin 's cramped death chamber and he was gently scooted onto the gurney where he would die . In September 2010 , a judge ruled that Albert Greenwood Brown 's execution would go ahead . But his death has since been delayed because of the state 's falling supply of sodium thiopental .
751 convicts are currently awaiting their fate in the state 's prison system . But no one has been put to death since a moratorium was signed in 2010 . Only 715 inmates can be housed at the death row in San Quentin . Governor Jerry Brown is asking for funding from state legislature .