Benjamin Boyd, a 34-year-old carnival worker, was sentenced Thursday to the maximum six-year sentence for stabbing an Albuquerque man to death during a fight in Taos in June 2006, The Taos News reported.

Boyd pleaded guilty last November to voluntary manslaughter in the killing of 21-year-old Jesse Sitting Hawk, who worked with Boyd in the carnival that visited Taos that summer, the News reported.

Sitting Hawk allegedly threatened Boyd with a crowbar when Boyd stabbed him just above the eye with a knife that broke off during the fight, leaving a three-inch blade in Sitting Hawk's head, according to the News.

Sitting Hawk was taken to Holy Cross Hospital, where he died of brain injuries, and Boyd was arrested after fleeing the scene, the paper reported.

State District Judge John Paternoster, despite an emotional apology from Boyd to Sitting Hawk's family, imposed the maximum six-year sentence, plus two years probation, according to the News.

"Based on your evaluation, I have sympathy for you, Mr. Boyd, but I have immensely greater sympathy for this family," Paternoster told the defendant. "Jesse Sitting Hawk is gone because of actions that you took and because of actions you did not take."

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