The issue is that he was one of the almost-all death row inmates who sentence was commuted to life in prison instead. He’s not free. You would have to read further in the article than I suspect about 80% of people are going to read, though, in order to find that out. There is no indication in the headline, lede, or quite a ways past the lede that this falls into the “life in prison” category of Biden pardons, and not into the “free to go” category of Biden pardons. And the framing and word choice heavily implies that it’s the second one.

I was actually going to post this, as a for-real news story, until I learned the punchline.