kill: integrate thiserror for error handling

[xtqqczze]

Follow-up to #13300

[github-actions]

GNU testsuite comparison:

Skip an intermittent issue tests/tail/tail-n0f (fails in this run but passes in the 'main' branch)
Skipping an intermittent issue tests/date/date-locale-hour (passes in this run but fails in the 'main' branch)
Note: The gnu test tests/dd/no-allocate is now being skipped but was previously passing.

[codspeed-hq]

Merging this PR will not alter performance

⚠️ Different runtime environments detected

Some benchmarks with significant performance changes were compared across different runtime environments,
which may affect the accuracy of the results.

Open the report in CodSpeed to investigate

⚡ 1 improved benchmark
❌ 1 regressed benchmark
✅ 337 untouched benchmarks
⏩ 46 skipped benchmarks¹

Warning

Please fix the performance issues or acknowledge them on CodSpeed.

Performance Changes

	Mode	Benchmark	BASE	HEAD	Efficiency
❌	Memory	cp_recursive_deep_tree[(120, 4)]	615.6 KB	699.2 KB	-11.96%
⚡	Simulation	complex_relative_date	147.6 µs	137.4 µs	+7.4%

Tip

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_{Comparing xtqqczze:GH13300 (a2364d9) with main (65957d9)}

Footnotes

1. 46 benchmarks were skipped, so the baseline results were used instead. If they were deleted from the codebase, click here and archive them to remove them from the performance reports. ↩