Tinkering with a description... Can I do it w/o TRS?

The Example As Thesis of Vigilante Execution seems to limit this trope way more than warranted. I'd like to tinker with it to make it clear that we're not just talking about courthouse step executions... And really, I don't think the setup is really all that interesting to begin with.

Is this something I can do without taking it to TRS?

I tend to agree that the Example As Thesis doesn't make it very clear that this isn't limited to "courthouse steps" vigilante executions.

As long as you aren't substantially changing the definition, generally tinkering with the description is ok, but in this case, since it will be pretty much a complete rewrite, it never hurts to run your draft changes past other tropers. Write up what you have in mind, and post it here, and we'll move this thread to TRS.

There's also the trope description improvement drive it can be taken to.

Okay, I'll come up with something and put it here.

I often come across descriptions with information that end up skewing towards useful notes at best, completely irrelevant at worst. Taking it out streamlines the description, if the info is somewhat good I either hide it with a note markup or take it to the analysis page. The work I did on Dawson Casting was like a term paper.

The Trope Description Improvement Drive thread that lexicon mentioned is here.

Oops, forgot about this. How about this as a replacement for that first paragraph:

Justice doesn't always prevail. Sometimes The Bad Guy Wins, especially in works that closely reflect the real world. And sometimes, just as an evildoer looks like he's going to be a Karma Houdini... BAM! He dies at the hand of a victim, victim's relative, crazy outsider, or some other interested party.

A Vigilante Execution occurs when someone who has committed (or been accused of committing) a crime, who's gotten off with light or no punishment, is murdered as extrajudicial payback/punishment for that crime.