@deprecated This method is inherently unsafe.  Stopping a thread with
 *       Thread.stop causes it to unlock all of the monitors that it
 *       has locked (as a natural consequence of the unchecked
 *       <code>ThreadDeath</code> exception propagating up the stack).  If
 *       any of the objects previously protected by these monitors were in
 *       an inconsistent state, the damaged objects become visible to
 *       other threads, potentially resulting in arbitrary behavior.  Many
 *       uses of <code>stop</code> should be replaced by code that simply
 *       modifies some variable to indicate that the target thread should
 *       stop running.  The target thread should check this variable
 *       regularly, and return from its run method in an orderly fashion
 *       if the variable indicates that it is to stop running.  If the
 *       target thread waits for long periods (on a condition variable,
 *       for example), the <code>interrupt</code> method should be used to
 *       interrupt the wait.