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I don't know why this is contentious, the Bible is pretty clear on this - Jesus went through a religious trial and then they took him to the Roman governor to seek the death penalty.
The Roman governor questioned Jesus, shrugged and let a crowd [of Jews, as you would expect] decide whether Jesus or another bloke should be crucified.
The saying "live by the sword, die by the sword" comes in response to the Jewish religious 'police' chopping off the ear of a servant while arresting Jesus.
I would say technically god killed Jesus, but the Christian god started off a Jewish god so arguably still killed by Jews.
The people executed by the Spanish inquisition were not directly executed by the church/inquisition, they were handed off to the government to do that because it was the responsibility of the crown to carry out executions. No one would say that the church was not responsible for the executions.
I don't think it's contentious on the facts of the story, but rather the statement is a problem because it carries with it hundreds of years of people saying that all Jews are responsible for the actions of the religious authorities of Judea in the 1st century CE and therefore antisemitism is justified. This belief is commonly held and expressed by Christian antisemites, but is obviously wrong and bigoted, so people argue against it - the idea the Pontius Pilate is responsible for Jesus' death is just a bad argument, you might as well blame Herod who had the opportunity to punish/pardon Jesus but opted to send him back to Pilate.