'butchery by' is correct and usable in written English.
You may use it when referring to an act of slaughter or murder, typically an act by one individual against another. For example: The police report indicated that the murder was an act of butchery by the victim's former partner.
The brilliantly contrived plot is in the manner of classical farce but it leads to mayhem on a massive scale that escalates from a broken nose to an accidental killing, butchery by axe, and execution by CIA gunmen.
Jerusalem is attended by a cringing Papal legate, who rubber-stamps all manner of butchery by the Templar hotheads and, when the city appears to be at the mercy of Saladin, he whiningly suggests they all convert to Islam and repent later.
Cosentino has become recognized in San Francisco as a leader in whole animal butchery by popularizing offal cuisine, a sustainable style of cooking that utilizes spare and often unused parts of animals.
It was not Manson's squalid butchery-by-proxy, where the cowardly mastermind was not even present.
All across Rwanda, there are similar scenes of butchery, preserved by survivors just as they were.
This comes to full, horrible flower in the final sequence of still photo-images of butchery accompanied by an ominous and deafening orchestral score.
And sometimes they can be uncomfortably polemical: a brief history of the Holocaust (a "colossal butchery organized by Hitler") concludes that "hunting Jews has always been a European sport.
Since 9/11, we have been sent pictures of the butchery wrought by other suicide bombers on themselves and others: broken bodies hanging out of cars; torsos and heads on pavements.
During the open call, three cows were rejected -- the Moonica Lewinsky cow, the Hasidic cow and a cow covered with butcher's marks and unbecoming remarks about butchery designed by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
Seeing that outsiders have intervened to stop the butchery and, by extension, to remove the tyrant from power in one Arab country, why should they not dish out the same salutary treatment to Syria and Mr Assad?In this section Sticky patch or meltdown?
The work presented here adds to this experimental butchery database by using measurements of cut mark cross-section taken from bone surface molds to investigate how stone tool characteristics including flake versus core tool type, edge angle, and tool weight, influence cut mark width and depth, ultimately testing whether cut mark size is a useful indicator of tool identity.
