Was Socrates right to not flee death in Plato's "Crito"?

Socrates was deeply concerned with both the formation of just laws and the nature of death. If he were to break the law in order to avoid death, he would have then been contradicting himself on two counts: he would have been denying the responsibility of the citizen towards the regime and its laws, and he would have been erting that death is something to be feared, a claim that he knew better than to make.