Arthur Hodges (c. 1893 – December 18, 1914) was a white man who became the first person in Clark County, Arkansas to be executed by means of the electric chair.

Newspapers described Hodges as having a "mind of a child" and being intellectually disabled to the point of reporters speculating on the morning of his execution if he was aware he was going to die.

[4] Hodges was convicted of Garner's murder on September 20, 1913, and sentenced to death; his first execution date was set for November 12.

However, third parties learned about his case and raised money for him to pursue an appeal, leading to him receiving a stay of execution on November 10, two days before his scheduled death.

[4][5] After Hodges' death sentence was upheld, on October 12, 1914, Governor George Washington Hays set a new execution date of November 14, 1914.

[6] Hodges spent his last hours praying with a group of religious advisors, singing hymns, and being baptized; he also arranged for some of his affects to be sent to a sister who lived in Texas.

Four of those executions were to be of black inmates, while four were to be of white inmates, including Hodges and also including Neal McLaughlin, a convicted rapist with an execution date of December 2, and Joe Strong and Clarence Dewein, two young white men "scarcely more than of age" who murdered a storekeeper.