The deprecated Thread.stop method causing the ThreadDeath error. We should stop using the deprecated stop method in "DefaultJavaScriptExecutor" class.

@SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
    private void killThread() {
        if (eventLoopThread_ == null) {
            return;
        }
        try {
            eventLoopThread_.interrupt();
            eventLoopThread_.join(10_000);
        }
        catch (final InterruptedException e) {
            LOG.warn("InterruptedException while waiting for the eventLoop thread to join ", e);
            // ignore, this doesn't matter, we want to stop it
        }
        if (eventLoopThread_.isAlive()) {
            if (LOG.isWarnEnabled()) {
                LOG.warn("Event loop thread "
                        + eventLoopThread_.getName()
                        + " still alive at "
                        + System.currentTimeMillis());
                LOG.warn("Event loop thread will be stopped");
            }

            // Stop the thread
            eventLoopThread_.stop();
        }
    }
```