Thread#stop() method is unsafe and it has been deprecated… since Java 1.2 because it does to a thread what a Linux SIGKILL does to a process. It kills immediately. Use Thread#interrupt() instead.

Demo of why Thread#stop is…

• We should use Thread#interrupt() instead of Thread#stop() because Thread#stop() method is deeply unsafe and it has been deprecated… since Java 1.2
• In a nutshell, Thread#interrupt() does to a…