Well, you don’t want to set up redirects for unpublished pages if you want the pages to be removed from Google index. As far as I know, the only way to have Google remove a page from their index is to let the bots hit a 404 enough times for them to be sure the page is really gone. I don’t know how long this takes, I just know that they won’t remove the page the first time they hit a 404 (in case the situation is temporary), and they won’t remove the page if they get a redirect instead of a 404. My gut tells me you have a redirect(s) set up somewhere and that some part of the redirect is causing the 500s.
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