President Joe Biden is facing a growing chorus of voices calling on him to pardon U.S. Navy Lieutenant Ridge Alkonis.

The service member faced careless driving charges for a car incident that killed two Japanese nationals while stationed in Japan, as The Washington Examiner reported.

Alkonis, who served as a weapons officer on board the USS Benfold at Yokosuka Naval Base, fell unconscious while driving back from a day trip to Mount Fuji with his wife and three children.

During the trip, the military man crashed into cars parked outside of a restaurant, resulting in the deaths of two Japanese citizens.

Alkonis did not have alcohol or narcotics in his system and had established what the Navy regarded as a model service record. The Navy has spoken up in support of the service member and has blamed the crash to rapid onset altitude sickness.

Japan, a staunch ally of the United States, has sought justice for their citizen and eventually sentenced him to three years in prison in September of 2022. However, he was transferred back to the United States just before Christmas.

Alkonis is detained in California after paying over $2 million in reparations to the relatives of the deceased and petitions from his wife and congressmen for the president to award him a pardon or commute his sentence.

The Wall Street Journal echoed the demands of Alkonis's family and outlined that in an op-ed on Dec. 29 calling on Biden to free Alkonis after he was excluded from the president's crop of Dec. 22 commutations.

"The stakes are larger than Lt. Alkonis and his family. Congress in the latest defense bill tasked the Pentagon with reviewing foreign legal protections for U.S. service members, a provision driven by this case," the Wall Street Journal editorial board wrote.

"Bringing those arrangements up to constitutional standards might preclude another mess. A presidential dispensation for Lt. Alkonis would be a useful message to sailors and airmen abroad pondering whether they are living one lapse away from ruin."

Representative Michael Waltz (R-Fla.), a former member of the United States Green Berets, has been a prominent voice on Capitol Hill advocating for the release of Alkonis. On Sunday, he gave an interview to Fox News.

"This was a tragedy over in Japan, but it was an accident," Waltz stated. "He was in Japanese prison, and yes, they are a wonderful and great ally, but he was denied legal counsel. He was denied an interpreter. He was held in solitary confinement. He was treated in the worst of ways."

"The fact that he's now being held in a U.S. prison because of a Japanese conviction on an accident and after how he was treated is unconscionable to me," he continued.

"I'm calling on President Biden. I am calling on the Department of Justice. Release him today. They have the authority to do so. Let this brave hero go home to his family and exercise the authority that you have."