Since the 1960s and throughout the present time, an interrogator in the United States would be likely to use all of the following forms of coercion to elicit confessions, EXCEPT:

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Promising lenient sentencing is something an interrogator in the United States is not legally allowed to do as it can be considered a form of undue coercion, potentially leading to false confessions. The other options (lying to the suspect, using a police informer as a cellmate, and assembling a phony lineup) are tactics that, while controversial, have been used within legal boundaries.

Since the 1960s and Throughout the Present Time, an Interrogator