I feel like this is less he feels like some fictional character should be able to avoid justice and more so a manifestation of his guilt and desire to avoid punishment
"Lanterns" writer Tom King on Hal Jordan's murder: "We had a big debate. It was like, 'Does Kerry Kane get punished?' Nothing could punish her more than the fact that she did that thing and she has to live with it. There's no, like, jail isn't worse than that."