There are narrow and unsafe uses of the no-arg Thread.stop() overload so it remains in the platform, although deprecated. There is an overload Thread.stop(Throw

There are narrow and unsafe uses of the no-arg Thread.stop() overload so it remains in the platform, although deprecated. There is an overload Thread.stop(Throwable) that is deprecated “for removal”. It’s been a no-op for several releases and the API will eventually be removed entirely.