diff --git a/src/Jira/Api.php b/src/Jira/Api.php
index 07f1639..f9a277c 100644
--- a/src/Jira/Api.php
+++ b/src/Jira/Api.php
@@ -72,6 +72,9 @@ public function __construct(
         AuthenticationInterface $authentication,
         ClientInterface $client = null
     ) {
+        //Regular expression to remove trailing slash
+        $endpoint = preg_replace('{/$}', '', $endpoint);
+        
         $this->setEndPoint($endpoint);
         $this->authentication = $authentication;
 
@@ -150,6 +153,24 @@ public function editIssue($issueKey, $params)
     }
 
 
+     /**
+     * Delete issue
+     *
+     * @param $issueKey should be YOURPROJ-221
+     * @param $deleteSubtasks if all subtask should be deleted
+     * @return mixed
+     */
+    public function deleteIssue($issueKey, $deleteSubtasks = 'true')
+    {
+        return $this->api(
+            self::REQUEST_DELETE, sprintf("/rest/api/2/issue/%s", $issueKey), 
+            array (
+                'deleteSubtasks' => $deleteSubtasks
+                )
+        );
+    }   
+
+
     public function getAttachment($attachmentId)
     {
         $result = $this->api(self::REQUEST_GET, "/rest/api/2/attachment/$attachmentId", array(), true);
diff --git a/src/Jira/Api/Client/CurlClient.php b/src/Jira/Api/Client/CurlClient.php
index 4a30d41..e5c595c 100644
--- a/src/Jira/Api/Client/CurlClient.php
+++ b/src/Jira/Api/Client/CurlClient.php
@@ -82,12 +82,14 @@ public function sendRequest($method, $url, $data = array(), $endpoint, Authentic
             } else {
                 curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($data));
             }
-        } else {
-            if ($method == "PUT") {
-                curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "PUT");
-                curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($data));
-            }
+        } elseif ($method == "DELETE") {
+            curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "DELETE");
+
+        } elseif ($method == "PUT") {
+            curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "PUT");
+            curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($data));
         }
+        
 
         $data = curl_exec($curl);