54 year old Ronald Smith has been on death row for nearly three decades, for killing two men in 1982.
The former resident of Red Deer, Alberta is asking that his sentence be commuted from death, to life in prison.
Smith says he's a changed man, who made a terrible mistake when he was 24 years old while high on drugs and alcohol.
The applications says Smith originally requested the death penalty, because of his remorse, and because he was alone in a foreign country.