The Thread.stop() method is unsafe and thus deprecated. If the thread being stopped was modifying common data, that common data remains in an inconsistent state.
A better way would be to have a variable indicating if the thread should be stopped. Other threads may set the variable to make the thread stop. Then, the thread itself may clean up and stop.
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