diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index d1aa2dac17..aad9ac8877 100644
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 'use strict';
 const path = require('path');
 const childProcess = require('child_process');
-const util = require('util');
 const crossSpawn = require('cross-spawn');
 const stripEof = require('strip-eof');
 const npmRunPath = require('npm-run-path');
@@ -360,5 +359,3 @@ module.exports.sync = (cmd, args, opts) => {
 };
 
 module.exports.shellSync = (cmd, opts) => handleShell(module.exports.sync, cmd, opts);
-
-module.exports.spawn = util.deprecate(module.exports, 'execa.spawn() is deprecated. Use execa() instead.');
diff --git a/test.js b/test.js
index 9633992a7e..c85e91c266 100644
--- a/test.js
+++ b/test.js
@@ -98,11 +98,6 @@ test('execa.shell()', async t => {
 	t.is(stdout, 'foo');
 });
 
-test('execa.spawn()', async t => {
-	t.is(typeof m.spawn('noop').pid, 'number');
-	t.is((await getStream(m.spawn('noop', ['foo']).stdout)).trim(), 'foo');
-});
-
 test('execa.sync()', t => {
 	const {stdout} = m.sync('noop', ['foo']);
 	t.is(stdout, 'foo');