Caprio's family announced on Facebook that his cause of death was pancreatic cancer as he battled with it for a long time. Frank Caprio was a Catholic. His son, David, posted on I

Judge Frank Caprio, who handed down compassion from the bench on the local television series “Caught in Providence,” earning himself and the show national attention, has died. He was 88. On Aug. 20, a post on his official Facebook page confirmed that Caprio “passed away peacefully” following a “long and courageous battle with pancreatic cancer.

"Judge Frank Caprio passed away peacefully at the age of 88 after a long and courageous battle with pancreatic cancer," the family wrote on Facebook. "In his honor, may we each strive to bring a little more compassion into the world – just as he did every day."