As I understand it, there was no jail time.
Is that correct?
There is a constant in this arena. It is this. The men who were involved in this crime were not model citizens to begin with. I would bet a crisp $100 that among them would be histories of theft, domestic abuse, public intoxication, fraud, etc. They did not meet after bible study, or on the way home from their community college class, or from their kid's soccer game to conspire to perpetrate this crime. They were not good men to begin with. They just got caught doing the sort of thing they have been doing every day for a very long time.
If I could wave a magic wand, there would be sharper teeth in TN law where they would have some private time to rethink the course of their lives. For their own good, and society at large.
Had they done this in about a dozen other states, they would have been given that opportunity.